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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, articles, atmosphere, cross-reactions, David Coppedge, evolution, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, movies, myths, natural selection, origin of life, peppered moth, podcast, scientific journals, Zombie Science}

Evolution’s Stubborn Icons: Peppered Moths and Miller-Urey Still Shambling Along

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 12, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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By now, you might think that the icons of evolution that Dr. Jonathan Wells wrote about 24 years ago have been put out of our misery. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, adaptation, Ann Gauger, biologic institute, causation, complexity, correlation, Darwinian mechanism, Douglas Axe, evidence, evolution, hype, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, interpretation, molecular biologists, mutations, narrative, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, podcast, skin, Undeniable (book), universal common descent}

Molecular Biologist Marci Reeves on the Principles of Scientific Thinking

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C.S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, engineering, engineers, function, ID 3.0, information, intelligent design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, purpose, random mutation, randomness, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, Venn diagram}

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, culture, evolution, family, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Grok, intelligent design, Marvel Cinematic Universe, multiverse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, scientific materialism, social media, subscription, The Daily Wire, universe}

Fantastic Four and a Walk-On for Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Great tensions fuel engaging drama, always. If there’s a conflict, it has to be stark and serious, and the stakes have to be high. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, DNA, DNA replication, evolution, history of life, hypothesis, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma}

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autism, brain, brain activity, dancing, forethought, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, materialism, music, natural selection, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Levengood
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bacteria, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, good, group selection, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, theodicy, Voltaire}

The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, birds, cars, cave bears, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, natural selection, reptiles, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›