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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, co-option, flowering plants, fossil record, God of the gaps, Homo (genus), humans, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, mammals, naturalism, pelvis, scientific knowledge, type III secretion system}

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, bamboo, Darwinian theory, dexterity, digits, engineering, giant pandas, GUT, ID the Future, intelligent design, mammals, microbiome, Panda's Thumb, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bamboo, engineering, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID the Future, mammals, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, podcast, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, algorithms, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, Perry Marshall, predictions, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, intelligence, intelligent design, lobsters, mammals, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, snakes}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, life, mammals, microbes, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 17, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, culture, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, prisoners, prostitutes, secularists, sex, sexual abuse, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists}

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 17, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Read More ›