Tag: Luther College

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, evangelizers, evolution, history, ID the Future, Luther College, Michael Keas, mythology, natural selection, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, bacterial flagellum, Ben Carson, Bible, Bill Nye, blood-clotting cascade, Charles Darwin, creationists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Lawrence Krauss, Luther College, medicine, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, pharmaceuticals, science writers, selective breeding, smallpox, Vaccines, virology}

Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”

_{Robert Shedinger
December 4, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, atheistic naturalism, Big Book, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent designer, Luther College, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Richard Dawkins, Robert Shedinger, Samuel Wilberforce, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostics, biologists, cosmologists, creationists, Darwin’s Bluff, evidence, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, hagiography, linguists, Luther College, nature, religion, Robert Shedinger, scientific evidence, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

1}

The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, demythologization, dogmatism, evolution, history, intelligent design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick}

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

_{Jonathan Witt
February 12, 2024

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, ID the Future, Luther College, Michael Keas, natural selection, podcast, Robert Shedinger, science history, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Rescuing Evolutionary Theory from Darwinian Mythology

_{Science and Culture
March 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

1}

Robert Shedinger reports on the contrast between Darwin’s private view of his theory of natural selection and the public view as detailed in his published work. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, James Ferguson, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope, University of Wisconsin}

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

_{Robert Shedinger
November 30, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science

5}

ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 6, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, atheism, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, churches, Darwinism, Human Zoos, intelligent design, Luther College, Lutherans, materialism, Mother Teresa, religion, spirituality, young people}

Intelligent Design May Speak to Young People’s Spiritual Interests

_{Robert Shedinger
April 6, 2021

Intelligent Design, Psychology, Science Education

5}

The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, children, documentaries, faith, Luther College, meaning, Paul Davies, purpose, religion, Science, students, The Goldilocks Enigma}

Why We Do This Work

_{Robert Shedinger
January 26, 2021

Faith & Science

1}

I am reading a response journal from a student in my Science and Religion class and came across a comment that really captures why we do what we do. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

30}

As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›