Tag: Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Foundations
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, basketball, biologists, body plans, Charles Darwin, evolution, innovation, lizards, natural selection, Nature Ecology & Evolution, nucleolus, propaganda, researchers, rhetorical strategies, Science Daily}

Evolutionary Flimflam: Watch Out for These Common Parlor Tricks in Science Reporting

_{Jonathan Witt
December 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Foundations, Intelligent Design

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I suspect the average person comes to accept modern evolutionary theory through a near-constant drip of pro-evolution propaganda. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, body plans, brain, diseases, evolution, function, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Live Science, monkeys, mutations, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Scientific American, spinal column}

How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince

_{Casey Luskin
August 9, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, archaea, ATP, bacteria, complexity, ecosystem, evolution, genes, genome, Immune System, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, metabolism, molecular biology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, prokaryotes, protein-coding genes, Science (journal), viruses, Washington Post}

“That Is a Lot of Evolution”: Study Finds LUCA Required 2,600 Genes

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology

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One scientist commented, “LUCA was a very complex cell, with a genome similar to modern bacteria." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, intelligent design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley}

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

_{Casey Luskin
December 31, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, intelligent design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley}

Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Cretaceous Period, evolution, evolutionists, flowering plants, fossil record, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Jurassic period, molecular clocks, Nature Ecology & Evolution, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Neo-Darwinism, New Scientist, Patrick Herendeen, Richard Buggs}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2021

Evolution

4}

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›

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Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, comb jelly, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian processes, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, geochemistry, Live Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, paleontology, radiations, Stephen Meyer, stratigraphy, trilobite}

Cambrian Explosion Excuses: Theme and Variations

_{Science and Culture
April 9, 2019

Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design

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It’s circular: “Because evolution innovates things, it will innovate things if given the opportunity.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Australian National University, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, fossilization, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, junk science, Kimberella, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Science (journal), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

“Ice Cube” Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2019

Evolution

6}

The authors discuss the mode of preservation of Ediacaran fossils, and they document taphonomical laboratory experiments. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Abrahamic faiths, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, computational biology, Darwinian evolution, Dennis Venema, Evangelical Christians, Homo sapiens, human origins, John Templeton Foundation, Monty Python, Nature Ecology & Evolution, population genetics, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Schaffner, Washington University}

Discussion Over: On Adam and the Genome, Former BioLogos Fellow Backs Down

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2018

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Dennis Venema sought to persuade his fellow Christians that genetic science had disproven the traditional idea of a “bottleneck” of two human ancestors. Read More ›

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Date
February 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Adaptive Radiation, alleles, anole lizard, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Galápagos Islands, genes, HMS Beagle, Jonathan Wells, Mr. Potato Head, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Neanderthals, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Research, speciation, University of British Columbia, Zombie Science (book)}

Finch Varieties in New Guinea Undercut Iconic Galápagos Finch Story

_{Science and Culture
February 28, 2018

Biology, Evolution

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Finches on another island “would leave even Charles Darwin scratching his head.” But do they “help solve an evolutionary puzzle”? Read More ›