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October 24, 2021

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, Francis Collins, ID the Future, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, random mutations, The Language of Science and Faith}

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

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October 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Annual Review of Genetics, DNA, evolution, hierarchy, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA (journal), RNA Biology, RNA transcripts, Science Signaling, universal common ancestry}

Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
September 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, “consensus science”, atheism, cognition, computer scientists, consciousness, Darwinism, David Gelernter, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Behe, mind, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, philosophers, Princeton University, Public Discourse, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Nagel}

Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Declaration of Independence, gorilla, human origins, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Justin Brierley, materialism, Miracles (book), neo-Darwinian theory, Noam Chomsky, Patricia Churchland, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Unbelievable, William Graham, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

_{Casey Luskin
August 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics

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Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 19, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, computational biology, Darwinism, debates, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Justin Brierley, neo-Darwinian theory, neutral evolution, paleontology, S. Joshua Swamidass, Washington University}

Watch: Bechly and Swamidass Debate Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
June 19, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

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One highlight is Dr. Bechly’s summation of his scientific reasons for affirming intelligent design. This produces the response from host Justin Brierley: “Wow.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 18, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, creationists, evolution, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), macroevolution, microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky, United States, University of Chicago, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, Yuri Filipchenko}

The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

_{Paul Nelson
June 18, 2021

Biology, Evolution, History of Science

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The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darrel Falk, Denis Lamoureux, developmental gene regulatory networks, evolution, evolutionary creation, intelligent design, Jim Stump, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, neo-Darwinian theory, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

_{David Klinghoffer
June 7, 2021

Faith & Science

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What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, biological origins, creationists, Darwinian evolution, English, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Frank Salisbury, John Maynard Smith, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian theory, primary school, protein space, sequence space, Yale University}

Social Exclusion and the Evolution Debate

_{Paul Nelson
May 27, 2021

Evolution

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Social exclusion via refusal to engage is probably the most powerful and effective means of controlling the debate about origins within science. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bilateria, biological complexity, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, Eumetazoa, gene regulatory networks, genes, genetic information, homology groups, Hoover Institution, Hox genes, Larry Moran, Metazoa, multiverse, Nature Communications, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, Peter Robinson, Planulozoa, Response to Criticism, Return of the God Hypothesis, rewiring, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley, Uncommon Knowledge, University of Toronto}

Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Materialists who purport to explain the origin of nature's complexity by smuggling in information unwittingly demonstrate the need for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Douglas Axe, gills, hermit crabs, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Lewis Wolpert, mammals, neo-Darwinian theory, pharyngeal arches, respiration, respiratory organs, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project, vertebrate}

Do Human Embryos Have Gills?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2021

Evolution

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Jonathan Wells provide quotes from leading embryologists discussing how pharyngeal folds in humans only have an “illusory” similarity to fish gills. Read More ›