Tag: just-so stories

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beards, birds, brassiere, cows, Deborah Kellerman, DNA switch, EMBO Reports, evolution, Evolving Minds Project, fingernails, fish, flies, health, horned lizard, Ig Nobel Prizes, Igs, Improbable Research, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, Lasker Prize, leopard, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), pangolin, paw pads, protocells, pufferfish, Regina Nuzzo, seahorse, storytelling, super-alcohol, supernova, Titan, turtle, Vladimir Leksa, vole}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, comedians, comedy, common sense, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary adaptation, insects, intelligent design, just-so stories, leaf, mimicry, predators, reverse-engineering, Stephen Meyer}

Steve Meyer and Comic Brad Stine on Insect Mimicry, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
January 4, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Apart from being a funny guy, Stine brings a gift for some shrewd common-sense, including about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, brainstem, cell membrane, cells, chemicals, death, diffusion, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, just-so stories, liquid water, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, proteins, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body}

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

_{Howard Glicksman
September 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, just-so stories, lungs, music, neuroscience, pharynx, singing, Smithsonian Magazine, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Evolutionary Model Can’t Account for Singing

_{Eric Hedin
July 8, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Our fascination with singing and how enamored we can become with hearing quality vocalists reveals something significant about our identity as humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioluminescence, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cnidarians, comedy, corals, credulity, entertainment, enzymes, evolution, Florida International University, intelligent design, just-so stories, light, Live Science, marine biology, materialists, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Smithsonian Institution}

Let There Be Bioluminescence

_{David Coppedge
May 22, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, bacteria, cofactors, copper, early Earth, Earth’s crust, enzymes, evolution, habitability, hemoglobin, intelligent design, iron ore, just-so stories, life, metals, microbes, microbial life, minerals, photosynthesis}

Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

_{Eric Hedin
May 14, 2024

Biochemistry, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

9}

The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, empirical data, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Harvard University, just-so stories, mammals, paleontology, reptiles, shells, skeletons, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

_{Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

3}

In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, capillaries, diffusion, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, just-so stories, liver, minerals, osmosis, Steve Laufmann, Your Design Body}

Dr. Glicksman: How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 21, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medicine

2}

In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, bioRxiv, birds, breeding, computer scientists, dinosaurs, eggs, evolutionary biology, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, just-so stories, locomotion, Munich, paleontology, pareidolia, peer review, taphonomy, Upper Jurassic, wings}

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

5}

Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, African Americans, american enterprise institute, Charles Murray, criminality, Darwinism, drugs, evolution, George Gilder, just-so stories, marriage, men, morality, rape, religion, Robert Wright, Rutgers University, Scripture, sexuality, sin, Steven Pinker, The Moral Animal, The New Yorker, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Victorians, violence, women}

The Toxic Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology about Men

_{Nancy Pearcey
June 16, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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As Darwinism is discredited scientifically, we should challenge the way it has shaped the secular code for masculinity. Read More ›