Tag: natural selection | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithm, Ariel Chipman, Artificial Selection, balancing selection, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, co-option, conservation, Darwin Devolves, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, evolution, Galápagos Islands, gene duplication, genetic drift, genetic mutations, Hugo de Vries, hybridization, introgression, John Sanford, John Templeton Foundation, magic, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mount improbable, Mutant Ninja Turtles, natural selection, negative selection, Owen D. Jones, personification, Phillip E. Johnson, polyploidy, process, programming, pterosaur, purifying selection, Richard Lewontin, Robert Hazen, Spiderman, stabilizing selection, Stuff Happens Law, subfunctionalization, survival of the fittest, The Design Inference, Tom Bethell, tuatara, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionists Need a Refresher Course in Natural Selection

_{David Coppedge
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, atheists, beetles, beginning, Bible, Big Bang, biochemistry, biological origins, biology, butterflies, Christians, creation, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian selection, evolution, fine-tuning, geneticists, Grand Canyon, humans, intelligent design, J. B. S. Haldane, Jews, molecular machines, natural selection, Noah, physics, protoplasm, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universes, University of Texas at Austin, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

In Fifty Years, How the Discussion About Science and Faith Has Changed

_{Granville Sewell
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Decades ago, as I can recall from personal experience, there seemed to be only two choices. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, altruism, behavior, Binghamton University, biology, Bret Weinstein, Bruce Harrell, businesses, Communism, Darwinian evolution, David Sloan Wilson, Discovery Institute, eugenics, evolutionary theory, evolutionary tree, freeway, graffiti, group selection, Heather Heying, homelessness, Howard Schultz, human waste, intelligent design, Katie Wilson, madness, millionaires, millionaires’ tax, natural selection, new york, radicalism, scientific racism, Seattle, socialism, Soviet Union, Starbucks, tax revenue, taxpayers, Tennessee, Wall Street Journal, World Cup, zombies}

In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Political Science

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Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, affirmers, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, atheism, Atlantic Ocean, chance, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, deniers, Edward Aveling, Francis Darwin, Francis Ellingwood Abbot, HMS Beagle, intelligent evolution, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Ludwig Büchner, Maurice Mandelbaum, National Secular Society, natural selection, nature, physics, Plinian Society, religion, Robert Edmond Grant, terminology, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Index, theistic evolutionists, Unitarians, University of Edinburgh, William Darwin}

Darwin’s Atheism: Historical Support and a Question of Terminology

_{Michael Flannery
May 26, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science

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Calling Gibberson, Miller, McGrath, and others theistic evolutionists is inaccurate because it fails to distinguish them from genuinely theistic evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Artem Novozhilov, codon mapping, codons, combinatorial space, conscious intent, Eugene Koonin, evolution, fine-tuning, frozen accident, genetic code, intelligent creator, intelligent design, natural selection, optimality, prebiotic selection, proteins, standard code, trial and error, tRNAs}

The Combinatorial Abyss: Why the Genetic Code Defies Chance

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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It is highly improbable that the genetic code could have evolved by gradual trial and error. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, allele sharing, butterflies, Chetone moth, common ancestry, common design, convergent evolution, deduction, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary tree, explanatory power, genes, genetic switches, genetic traits, Heliconius numata, inference, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Life’s Solution, moths, mutations, natural selection, paradigm, PLOS Biology, Richard Dawkins, Science Daily, Simon Conway Morris, technology, The Blind Watchmaker}

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, brewer’s yeast, Complex III, complexity, electrochemistry, electrons, elegance, Energy, engineers, flavin adenine dinucleotide, intelligent agent, mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial respiratory chain, molecular machines, natural selection, organic chemistry, oxygen, protons, quantum tunneling, reverse-engineering, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, semiquinone, ubiquinol}

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

_{Emily Reeves
April 28, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 23, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, aliens, americans, Big Bang, Casey Luskin, cellular machines, chemicals, cosmos, creator, Disclosure Day, documentary, Donald Trump, Epoch Times, evolution, extraterrestrials, faith and science, genetic code, government, humans, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, living cell, molecular machines, natural selection, nature, office-holders, origin of life, physics, Steven Spielberg, The Age of Disclosure, The Story of Everything, UFOs, unintelligent forces, universe}

Luskin: If Aliens Exist, They Were Designed Just Like We Were

_{David Klinghoffer
April 23, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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I’m an agnostic on these purported technologically super-advanced creatures with their physics-defying crafts. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, agnostics, atheists, biologists, careers, complexity, Curtis Hrischuk, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, endowed by our creator, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary jargon, Gregory Reeves, human engineers, information, John West, living things, Michael Egnor, narrative gloss, natural selection, nature, neurosurgeon, organisms, Philip Skell, physics, Science and Culture Today, Stuart Burgess, transcendent intelligent source}

Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

_{Eric Hedin
March 18, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Physics

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Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Read More ›