Tag: Mendelian genetics

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, causation, character string, context, design intuitions, design perspective, English, food, function, genetics, Genetics (journal), genotype, Gregor Mendel, guitar, house, language, Mendelian genetics, natural language, noun, phenotype, pleiotropy, poker, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, sensory organs, skull, verb, vertebrates, vocalization}

“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

_{Paul Nelson
April 20, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

30}

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australia, BioEssays, crisis, Darwinian evolution, DNA, genome, Harvard University, John Mattick, junk DNA, Mendelian genetics, Modern Synthesis, paradigm, paradigm shift, proteins, RNAs, Short Tandem Repeats, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
November 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, argument from analogy, Carl Sagan, category error, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Copernican principle, evolution, Frank Drake, Georges Cuvier, Goldilocks Zone, HMS Beagle, James Hutton, Louis Agassiz, Mendelian genetics, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Scotland, South America, uniformitarianism, William Paley}

Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 1, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lyell, Darwinism, epigenetics, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lamarckian theory, Mendelian genetics, mount improbable, natural preservation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Pyrrho, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Buranyi, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, The Guardian}

Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck

_{Neil Thomas
July 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

15}

The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, Gospels, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

15}

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 4, 2018

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __nedited, "chilling effect", argument, censorship, Charles Darwin, debate, Free Science, free speech, Human Zoos, King’s College London, Large Hadron Collider, Mendelian genetics, Neo-Darwinism, neurobiology, Quillette, Richard Weikart, science, Trofim Lysenko}

“Risky” Business — College Shuts Down Professor over Speech on Science, Free Expression

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 4, 2018

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

3}

Adam Perkins, King’s College London lecturer in Neurobiology of Personality, was scheduled to deliver a talk at his institution. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 5, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Cornell University, extinction, Mendelian genetics, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, proof, Springer, University of Virginia}

Peer-Reviewed Science: A “Mathematical Proof of Darwinian Evolution” Is Falsified

_{Science & Culture
January 5, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Mathematics

8}

Due to the tradition of professional scientific writing, major developments in scientific literature often arrive muffled in language so bland or technical as to be totally missed by a general reader. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
November 22, 2016

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Communism, Darwinism, dissent, falsified theories, government funding, Joseph Stalin, Lamarckism, Lysenkoism, Mendelian genetics, Robert Pennock, scientific establishment, Trofim Lysenko}

American Lysenkoism

_{Jonathan Wells
November 22, 2016

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Darwinists have compared intelligent design to Lysenkoism, but they have it backward. Read More ›