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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, enzymes, evolution, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, domestication, evolution, health, history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, variation}

Darwin’s Bluff — Continued

_{Robert Shedinger
February 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, I turned up some later letters showing that Darwin’s bluff extended well beyond 1863. 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
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, birds, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Darwin’s God, evolution, fish, Galápagos Islands, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, species, theology, universal common descent}

Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

_{Robert Shedinger
February 20, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A book widely hailed as proposing a true mechanism for evolution actually reads more like an anti-creationist polemic. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, natural selection, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Darwin’s Bluff: Peeling Back the Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he continually promised to others but never completed or published. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, developmental biology, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, mythology, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, paleontology, punctuation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, variation}

Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We need to let Darwin speak for himself. It turns out that Darwin, given the opportunity, is quite capable of dismantling his own mythology. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, ID the Future, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, podcast, recognition, rhetoric, Robert Shedinger, scientific community, status}

Deconstructing Darwin: The Myth and the Man

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Harboring a secret fear that he’d become what his father said he would — a disgrace to his family — Darwin desperately sought status and recognition. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, dogmatism, evolution, history, intelligent design, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick}

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

_{Jonathan Witt
February 12, 2024

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Bluff, evolution, humans, intelligent design, marine biology, Michael Behe, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, paralysis, Patrick Matthew, ravens, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Socrates, transmutation}

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›