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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, brain, cloning, DNA, embryos, gestation, human cloning, intellect, mammals, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, proteins, scientific evidence, somatic cell nuclear transfer, testability, Wesley J. Smith, will}

Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

Campylobacter jejuni bacteria 3d render illustration closeup

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
June 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, appendix, Darwinian medicine, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, dehydration, diarrhea, Escherichia coli, foresight, GUT, gut bacteria, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, mammals, Marcos Eberlin, microbes, physiology, poverty, Salmonella, The Descent of Man, toxins, vestigial structures}

Diarrhea and Design: A Response to Jerry Coyne

_{Marcos Eberlin
June 21, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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I respect Coyne’s position, but, lacking his faith, I interpret this evidence more naturally as pointing to an ingenious mind. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Reproductive Science
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, __k-review, bats, birds, chromosomes, clades, climate change, collagen, Current Biology, Darwinism, evolution, Flight, genome, Immune System, intelligence, light, mammals, Michael Gross, migration, phylogeny, PNAS, positive selection, transcriptome}

Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2019

Evolution, Reproductive Science

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The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 15, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, amniotes, causal circularity, cervix, DNA, evolution, foresight, homology, homoplasy, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, paleontologists, placental mammals, proteins, punctuated equilibria, RNA, Royal Society, Stephen Jay Gould}

An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

_{Jonathan Wells
May 15, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ACLU, birds, Boston Review, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Evolution News, exaptation, fish, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mammals, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Nathan Lents, ossicles, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal)}

Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation

_{Casey Luskin
February 19, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Writing in the journal Science, reviewers Lents, Swamidass, and Lenski make a very specific, clear, strong, and unambiguous claim. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, blood-clotting cascade, Cambridge University Press, chloroquine, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Ernst Mayr, evolution, exaptation, Finding Darwin's God, gene duplication, hemoglobin, Hox genes, Kenneth Miller, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mammals, mutations, Nathan Lents, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, olfaction, PLoS Genetics, primates, Response to Criticism, ribose, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

_{Michael Behe
February 14, 2019

Evolution

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Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, birds, body plans, circular reasoning, Darwin Devolves, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, exaptation, feathers, fish, flippers, Hox genes, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Michael Behe, mutations, Science (journal)}

First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning

_{Brian Miller
February 8, 2019

Evolution

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This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", bats, behavior, body plans, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, design intuition, development, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, genera, genetic variations, Harvard University, innovation, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, philosophers, physiology, postdoc, Research, Royal Society, species, telescope, theologians, whales}

The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections

_{Brian Miller
December 28, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, American Scientific Affiliation, antibodies, bacteria, binding site, Christians, Denis Lamoureux, Dennis Venema, Didier Raoult, Discovery Institute, Donald Prothero, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, Immune System, information, insects, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, mammals, mollusks, nylonase, probabilistic resources, protein folds, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, trees, UC Davis, whales}

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

_{Brian Miller
October 30, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, China, common ancestry, convergent evolution, Darwinian mechanisms, echolocation, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genes, homology, Illustra Media, intelligent design, last common ancestor, Living Waters, mammals, materialists, molecular phylogeny, Paul Nelson, physiology, proteins, Richard Sternberg, Sarah Chaffee, Science Advances, whales, wonder}

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

_{Science & Culture
October 10, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry. Read More ›