Tag: magical thinking

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 11, 2024

Categories
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biodiversity, biologists, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charnia, Ediacaran biota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, interpretation, magical thinking, paleontologists, Precambrian, radiations, radiometric dating, Science Advances, University of Edinburgh}

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024

Genetics, Paleontology

5}

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, cosmic fine-tuning, Elie Feder, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, magical thinking, podcast, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

4}

Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 2, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, agnostics, British Rationalist Association, Darwinism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute Press, England, evolutionary theory, German, magical thinking, Nazis, Neil Thomas, Oxford University, propaganda, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, University of Durham}

In a New Book, Longtime Agnostic Dumps Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
August 2, 2021

Evolution

3}

Critics of intelligent design will have a hard time maligning Neil Thomas as a “creationist in a cheap tuxedo.” Read More ›

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Date
November 16, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, Brownian motion, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinists, defining terms, Dickinsonia, fossil record, magical thinking, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, Paul Chien, PNAS, punctuated equilibria, punctuated equilibrium, Stephen Jay Gould, University of Vienna, Yale University}

Punctuated Equilibria Is Back, but Still Magical

_{Science & Culture
November 16, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Calling it by a new name doesn’t change the essence of a theory relying on chance. Read More ›