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Date
January 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Latin, Nominalism, On the Origin of Species, Periodic Table, phylogeny, species, speciesism, UC Berkeley}

Biologist Advocates Biology Without Species; What Could Go Wrong?

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Philosophy, Science

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So what is real, according to Brent Mishler? Only phylogeny — the tree of evolutionary descent. Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, children, Christianity, factories, faith, ID the Future, Latin, Louis Pasteur, microbes, microorganisms, podcast, spontaneous generation, Vaccines, worms}

The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

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In the 19th century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abdomen, Antarctica, Arthropoda, arthropods, Collembola, Darwinism, etymology, evolution, Georgia Tech, imitation, insects, intelligent design, just-so stories, Latin, PNAS, popcorn, Science Uprising, South Korea, springtails, Stanford University}

Springtails: Wingless Arthropods that Can Fly

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The fossil record shows a “Hexapod Gap.” Unfortunately for Darwin, the two leading theories to explain the gap can be ruled out. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, David Brown, English, evolution, French, German, Heinrich Bronn, intelligent design, Lamarckism, Latin, Ludwig Büchner, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, telos, translation}

Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term

_{Neil Thomas
December 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifacts, atheism, Darwinians, evolution, fossil record, gradualism, intelligent design, Latin, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, Paul Nelson, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth}

The Discontinuous Fossil Record Refutes Darwinian Gradualism

_{Günter Bechly
November 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Appeals to the incompleteness of the fossil record are no longer tenable. Paul Nelson has cogently explained why. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, authoritarianism, Ben Shapiro, doctors, expertise, Latin, neologism, physicists, podcast, scientism, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego}

“Ultracrepidarianism” — A Helpful New Word for a Problem in Science and Elsewhere

_{David Klinghoffer
September 20, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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It alludes to an adage with roots in ancient Greece, “Let the cobbler not judge above the sandal.” That is, mind your own business. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Against the Tide, cancel culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Communism, debate, history, intellectuals, Iron Curtain, john lennox, Latin, Marxism, naturalism, Oxford University, pagans, Richard Dawkins, tolerance, universities}

Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Bioethics

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"Once you lose the kind of stabilizing influence of rational thought and respect," says John Lennox, "then you can end up with violence, as we have seen." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre, Darwinian mechanisms, Douglas Axe, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Latin, Michael Behe, molecular biology, Ola Hössjer, peer review, protein evolution, Robert J. Marks II, scientists, statistics, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm University, Undeniable (book), University of Tromsø, waiting-time problem, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Breakout Paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology Explicitly Supports Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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If the paper is any indication, appearing as it does in a prominent journal, some of the suffocating constraints on ID advocacy may be coming off. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, carbon, Charles Darwin, Cyanobacteria, Dr. Pangloss, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, metazoans, meteorites, Michael Denton, natural selection, optimization, Paul Davies, purpose, quantum mechanics, satire, The Miracle of the Cell, Voltaire, wonder}

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

_{Rob Sheldon
October 1, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›