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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, comparative biology, Cornelius Hunter, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, gene duplications, honesty, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, National Geographic, natural selection, Potemkin village, random variation, recombination, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, whales}

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

_{Michael Behe
May 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 10, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complex structures, evolution, fitness, Germany, ID the Future, intelligent design, living things, Max Planck Institute, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Paul Nelson, podcast, randomness, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 10, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Read More ›

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Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, biologists, biology, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, genetic variations, genome, immaterial genome, intelligent design, life, material processes, natural selection, natural world, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg}

Richard Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome Is Darwinism’s Silver Bullet

_{Science & Culture
May 7, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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This may sound spooky, but as Dr. Brian Miller explains, it is chiefly the application of advanced mathematics that dictates Dr. Sternberg’s conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Darwinism, Harvard University, human evolution, Inkwell Press, James Barham, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, natural selection, naturalism, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas}

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, cabbage, Charles Darwin, civilizations, earth, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, sun}

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia}

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, elephants, England, flies, grasses, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Thomas Henry Huxley, variations, whales, worms}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, evolution, history, ID the Future, Luther College, Michael Keas, mythology, natural selection, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, natural selection, Neanderthals, Science (journal)}

Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, Neil Thomas, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›