Tag: natural selection

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, anatomy, Artificial Selection, biblical literalism, Charles Darwin, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, digital code, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, fine-tuning, fossil record, Great Britain, ID the Future, Joseph Hooker, living cells, logic, magic wand, mathematics, Natural History of Creation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Quarterly Review, religion, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, speculations, Stephen Meyer, superstition, Thomas Henry Huxley, universe}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 2, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 27, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bending, biceps, biology, Biomimetics, brain software, chameleon, Current Biology, elephant, elephant trunk, engineering, evolution, hydrostat, intelligent design, King Jeroboam, muscles, muscular hydrostat, natural selection, Noel Naughton, octopus, octopus arm, physiology, snake, squid, triceps muscle, unbending}

Independent Origins of Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum for Evolution

_{David Coppedge
October 27, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, arrorws, Evangelical Philosophical Society, functional analysis, George Montañez, information, Jay Richards, logarithm, mathematics, measure theory, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Niels Bohr Institute, No Free Lunch, phi, Philosophia Christi, quiver, replicational, Robert J. Marks II, sigma, specificational, The Design Inference, Thomas English, vector-valued integration, Winston Ewert}

Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

_{William A. Dembski
October 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithm, David Wolpert, displacement, evolutionary computing, information, intermediate sequences, My Personal History with Information, natural selection, No Free Lunch theorems, offloading, random sequence, Richard Dawkins, target, target sequence, The Blind Watchmaker, William Macready}

“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars

_{William A. Dembski
October 5, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution

5}

Imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, chance, complexity, improbability, information, Jaakko Hintikka, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Ohio State University, philosophy, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Synthese, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winston Ewert}

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

_{William A. Dembski
September 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. 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
Neil Thomas

Date
September 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alvar Ellegård, Anglo-Saxons, Bishop Paulinus, Cerne Abbas Giant, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Coifi, creation, Darwinism, Eamon Duffy, Edwin King of Northumbria, England, English monarchy, Henry Allcott, Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, Madame Helena Blavatsky, Maximilien Robespierre, meaningfulness, natural selection, nobles, Origin of Species, Penda, philosophy, polytheists, Protestantism, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, Sir Charles Lyell, spiritualism, survival of the fittest, The Stripping of the Altars, Thomas Jefferson, Venerable Bede, Victorians, Wagnerian opera, William Judge}

The Darwinian Revolution: A Longer Historical Perspective

_{Neil Thomas
September 16, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

21}

It is well enough known that our remote ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons, were originally polytheists who had voyaged over the English Channel. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Angraecum sesquipedale, Charles Darwin, Christoph Adami, coevolution, evolution, evolutionary theory, experiments, insects, Madagascar, natural selection, nectar, nectary, orchids, pollen, predictions, proboscis, sphinx moth, spur, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

_{Winston Ewert
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, Annaka Harris, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biochemists, caterpillar, cats, cells, cocooning, cognition, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, consciousness, Dogs, dying, environments, Epoch Times, evolution, glutamate, hierarchy, horses, human nervous system, iai.tv, James Shapiro, leaves, Makai Elías Calles, mating, natural selection, neurons, neurotransmitters, octopus, plant consciousness, plants, self-awareness, stripping fruit trees, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago}

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, Christoph Adami, complex molecular structures, damage, Darwin Devolves, Energy, evolution, genome, increase of information law, information, loss, Maxwell’s demon, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, The Evolution of Biological Information, William F. Basener}

Evolution of Biological Information: Maxwell’s Demon

_{Winston Ewert
July 21, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Maxwell’s demon is a hypothetical entity that can increase the energy in a compartment by choosing to admit or exclude incoming particles based on speed. Read More ›