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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Casey Luskin, David Hullender, evolution, ID the Future, macroevolution, Neo-Darwinism, Olen Brown, podcast, probability, scientists, species, University of Missouri, University of Texas}

Can Darwinian Evolution Be Rescued from Dogma?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin begins a conversation with two distinguished PhD scientists who are asking tough questions of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, Brian Miller, Christianity, Douglas Axe, Ernst Haeckel, faith and science, Father Michael Chaberek, Germany, God Hypothesis, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, Napoleon, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Poland, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet}

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial life, cells, Daniel Witt, Denis Noble, genome, ID the Future, information, Justin Brierley, life, logos, matter, mind, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer, The Selfish Gene, William Lane Craig}

Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abduction, anomalies, artifacts, Avalon explosion, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, gradualism, great Ordovician biodiversification event, Lower Cambrian, molecular biology, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, photosynthesis, population genetics, predictions, random mutations, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, specified complexity, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth}

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›

Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, cells, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, contingency, death, Ernst Mayr, evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, hummingbirds, intelligent design, males, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, sexual dimorphism, Stephen Meyer, waste}

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. 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

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, marine invertebrates, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, saltation, species, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship

_{Günter Bechly
February 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The concept of chronospecies in paleontology was introduced by George (1956) for the naming of successive species in a single evolving lineage. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Communism, conservatism, Frederick Douglass, free speech, Human Zoos, John West, modernism, Neo-Darwinism, religious liberty, scientific materialism, scientific racisim, slavery}

From Political Scientist John West: Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our colleague John West has a handsome new website with many useful features, but I was particularly intrigued by the section headed, “Something Personal.” Read More ›