Tag: Michael Lynch

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 26, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amoebas, Arizona State University, complexity, culture, Daniel Dennett, Daphnia, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, evolution, genetic drift, genome, humans, Michael Lynch, microcrustaceans, mind, natural selection, random mutations, school systems, subtlety, water fleas}

No. 7 Story of 2024: Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 26, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christof Koch, climate change, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, evolution, genes, intelligence, Michael Lynch, National Academy of Sciences, Popular Mechanics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers, subtlety, University of Arizona, water fleas}

Covering for Darwin, Science Reporter Massages a Study

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Genetically, the model organism for studying evolution was just one water flea after another. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amoebas, Arizona State University, complexity, culture, Daniel Dennett, Daphnia, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, evolution, genetic drift, genome, humans, Michael Lynch, microcrustaceans, mind, natural selection, random mutations, school systems, subtlety, water fleas}

Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, David Klinghoffer, debates, dragon, ENCODE, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Poland, Richard Sternberg}

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Calvin College, Christianity, complex systems, design triangulation, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, Hamlet, intelligent design, macroevolution, Michael Lynch, Michael Scriven, natural selection, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminar, Wayne State University, William A. Dembski}

Reform It Altogether — More on the Naturalistic Parabola

_{Paul Nelson
September 18, 2020

Biology, Evolution

6}

I’ve fussed about this point for a long time. And Discovery Institute colleagues have occasionally chided me for my obsession. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Arizona State University, atheism, Ball State University, biologists, blasphemy, bullying, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, education, Eric Hedin, evolution, Free Science, freedom from religion foundation, Genesis, Gerd B. Müller, Granville Sewell, gravity, heresy, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Molecular Biology, London, Michael Lynch, Natural History Museum, New York State, pedagogy, religion, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, secular religion, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution}

Blasphemy Against Darwin in New York State! Atheist Group Intimidates School District

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

7}

First, it is definitely NOT against either federal law or Supreme Court precedent to teach about scientific criticisms of Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Arizona State University, Douglas Axe, dreaming, evolutionary theory, Michael Lynch, natural selection}

Evolution “Dreaming” — Tough Language from Biologist Michael Lynch

_{David Klinghoffer
February 27, 2020

Evolution

2}

Professor Lynch thinks fellow evolutionary biologists are “dreaming” and he does not mean that as a compliment. Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
May 22, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, devolution, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, fitness, foresight, fossil record, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, molecular machines, mutations, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, punctuated equilibrium, Royal Society, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge}

Game of Thrones: As Darwinism Dissolves, Top Evolutionists Scramble for a Successor

_{Marcos Eberlin
May 22, 2019

Evolution

6}

A meeting at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, sought to encourage novel thinking about evolution. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, David Snoke, E. coli, Ebola, FedEx, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, HIV, malaria, Michael Lynch, Michigan State University, mutation rate, polar bears, population size, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Telliamed Revisited, tiktaalik, tinkering, turtles, viruses, waiting-time problem, Yersinia pestis}

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

_{Michael Behe
March 14, 2019

Evolution

13}

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, CCC, chloroquine resistance, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Douglas Futuyma, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Genetics (journal), Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicholas Matzke, oocyte, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, Xenopus laevis}

From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2019

Evolution

22}

Swamidass’s response doesn’t address our main arguments, but he indicates he is impressed by what Darwinian mechanisms accomplished in generating chloroquine resistance. Read More ›