Tag: mammals

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __featured1, Adam Rutherford, African savannah elephant, animal kingdom, BBC, bodies, cells, Chris Packham, creator, Current Biology, David Coppedge, documentary, DoorDash, elephant trunk, elephants, epistemology, Evolution (TV series), gills, Harvard University, inventor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, lungs, mammals, Mary Droser, methodology, muscular hydrostat, musculature, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Noel Naughton, NOVA PBS, Peter Girguis, phylogenetic analysis, presuppositions, Richard Buggs, UC Riverside}

In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026

Biology, Evolution

8}

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew Huberman, animal impulse, Arthur Brooks, calling, citations, Darwinian evolution, Dogs, dopamine, enjoyment, evolution, faith, foresight, h-index, happiness, Huberman Lab, human agents, human brain, human exceptionalism, humans, idols, intelligent design, love, macronutrients, mammals, meaning, Microsoft Word, moral aspiration, neuroscience, parahippocampal gyrus, persistence, philosophy, planning, pleasure, prefrontal cortex, rape, religion, satisfaction, survival of the fittest, thirst, virtue, water, worship}

Happiness Comes When Humans Fulfill Our Designed Purpose

_{Emily Reeves
October 19, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

9}

Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after our suffering toward a goal. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotic sac, babies, bats, birds, Caribbean, caves, Charles Darwin, childbirth, Coast to Coast AM, coincidences, contralateral control, evolution, fish, George Noory, heart, humans, intelligent design, mammals, Monarch butterflies, mothers, natural selection, Oppenheimer’s Demon, pelvic bone bridge, pelvic muscles, reptiles, Stone Age, theism, Wizard of Oz}

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 28, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 21, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, bacteria, Cit+, complex molecular interactions, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), eukaryotes, evolution, fitness landscapes, generation time, genomes, HIV, mammals, Michael Behe, mutation rates, mutations, patients, population sizes, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers}

In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 21, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

5}

If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, Chordata, chordates, common ancestor, evolution, genomes, hominid, Homo sapiens, inference, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, mammals, Metazoa, Network of Life, ontology, organisms, Pan troglodytes, paragraphs, phylogenetic inference, phylogenetics, phylogeny, species, statistical noise, Systematic Biology, systematics, traits, Tree of Life}

Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You

_{Science & Culture
August 12, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

2}

You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, Animal Algorithms, birds, brain hemispheres, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian phyla, Center for Science and Culture, complex programmed behaviors, Darwin's Doubt, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute Press, Emily Reeves, evolutionary biology, fossil explosions, function, functional information, genetics, genomics, George Montañez, goal-directedness, Günter Bechly, Homo (genus), insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Kolmogorov complexity, land plants, mammals, marine invertebrates, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, Minding the Brain, molecular biology, Nature Communications, Origin of Species, paleontology, Piers Morgan, protein science, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, split-brain surgery, Stephen Meyer, Taking Stock at 30 (series), teleology, The Design Inference, The Immortal Mind, Theistic Evolution (book), William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

11}

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 30, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academics, anatomy, bad design, biology, biomechanics, bipedalism, circular thinking, contradictions, devolution, divine design, engineers, evolution, human ancestry, human body, human foot, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, locomotion, Lucy Hyde, mammals, musculoskeletal system, Nathan Lents, prosthetic device, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), Richard Dawkins, Smithsonian Institution, theology, tinkering, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol, worldview}

Darwin Devolves (Again): Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 30, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

"There is a reason why evolutionists focus on the human body as a prime example of bad design." Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, ancestral genes, animals, arthropods, bacteria, biological descent, biological information, bony vertebrates, chordates, Christoph Adami, COX2, cytochrome c oxidase subunit II, entropy, eukaryotes, evolution, fish, homeobox, homeodomain, information, lineages, mammals, Maxwell’s demon, proteins, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

_{Winston Ewert
July 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

3}

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, asocial brain, body temperature, brain, cephalopods, cuttlefish, dog, dolphins, ectotherm, endotherms, habitat, intelligence, iScience, Jennifer Mather, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, mammals, mirror, Natural History Museum, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, octopus, ScienceAlert, shellfish, social brain, squid, University of Lethbridge, whales}

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

5}

With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, bears, book, building, cancer, completeness, DNA, electrical wire, Epigenetics and the Architect, habitability, house, idea, imagination, information, James Gills, Jonathan Wells, laws of nature, Leonardo da Vinci, lumber, mammals, mind, Mount Everest, mountains, nails, painters, Science and Culture Today, selection, Thomas Woodward, universe, wholeness, ziggurat}

In Defiance of Evolution, Life Is an Idea

_{Eric Hedin
July 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Nobody looks at a bear and thinks, “If it only had a long tail, it would be more bear-like.” Read More ›