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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

10}

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 ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, birds, Boeing 747, Current Biology, fossils, gigantism, Günter Bechly, magic, mutations, Neil Thomas, Origin, paleontologists, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, selection, The Conversation, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Portsmouth}

Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

8}

Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 27, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, carbon, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, intelligent design, laptop computer, laws of nature, monkeys, natural processes, Neil Thomas, neutrons, William Shakespeare}

There’s a Limit to What Nature Can Do

_{Eric Hedin
November 27, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Nature actually has precious few options for manipulating the natural ingredients (atoms) of this universe. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, J.P. Moreland, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Quarterly Review of Biology}

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

_{David Coppedge
June 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, correspondence, Darwin’s Bluff, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Günter Bechly, history, ID the Future, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paleontologists, podcast, Robert Shedinger, scholars, scientific evidence}

Darwin and the Mystery of the Missing Evidence

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin continually promised his “big book” full of missing evidence to many of his correspondents but failed to deliver it. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosynthesis, birds, determinism, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, natural selection, Neil Thomas, Neo-Darwinism, Science (journal), The Design Inference, Your Designed Body}

Rescuing Chance for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it? Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science & Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Berlin, cell biology, communication, Darwinism, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, fatty acids, genius, intelligent design, Lord Kelvin, mitochondria, Neil Thomas, organelles, Science (journal), starvation, University of North Carolina, Your Designed Body}

Engineering Language Enters Biology — The Case of the Endosome

_{David Coppedge
March 21, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

An automated engineering system presupposes a designer with foresight and a mind that understands how to make things work. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 6, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cells, Charles Darwin, chromatin, daughter cells, DNA, evolution, genome, histones, industry, intelligent design, Nature Communications, Neil Thomas, neutrophils, stem cells, UC Riverside}

Cell Fate: Another Hurdle for Evolution

_{David Coppedge
May 6, 2022

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When a stem cell divides, one daughter cell must maintain its stemness while the other specializes. Therein lies another truckload of requirements. Read More ›