Tag: paleontologists

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 2, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, American Geophysical Union, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, bioRxiv, Casey Luskin, Charles Thaxton, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box:, evolution, George Gilder, Günter Bechly, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Isaac Newton, James A. Shapiro, John West, Michael Behe, microbiologists, National Review, nonfiction books, Onsi Fakhouri, paleontologists, quantum theory, Robert Sheldon, space plasma physics, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Time Magazine, University of Alabama, University of Chicago, Voldemort, Your Amazing Body}

Mighty Darwin Has Struck Out: Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Klinghoffer
August 2, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Most iconically of all, Behe gave us there the irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum. Right away, the flagellum hit the fan. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 19, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Chicago, chimps, Christianity for Doubters, common design, consciousness, DNA, echolocation, elementary particles, evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, fossil skulls, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, intelligent design, modern humans, nature, New York Times News Service, nuclear power plants, Origin of Species, paleontologists, paleontology, physics, primates, smart phones, supercomputers, technology, Why Evolution Is Different}

God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

_{Granville Sewell
July 19, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, animal life, bilaterian animals, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian phyla, Casey Luskin, China, Ediacaran biota, fossil record, fossils, genetic information, geology, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, kelp, marine algae, paleontologists, paleontology, population genetics, preservation, Science (journal), symmetry, waiting times}

At Long Last, Have New Fossil Finds Solved the Cambrian Enigma?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 22, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, apes, BIO-Complexity, Brown University, Christians, Chromosomal Fusion, chromosomes, common ancestry, crocodiles, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Developmental Cell, DNA, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fish, Franciscan University of Steubenville, genes, genetic evidence, GULO, Günter Bechly, human chromosome 2, human genetic diversity, Kenneth Miller, National Center for Science Education, Ola Hössjer, paleontologists, Poland, pseudogenes, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, tetrapods, theistic evolution, tiktaalik}

Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
May 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Paleontology

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Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 17, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, ambulacrarian, bilaterians, Brazil, burrows, Cambrian Explosion, ctenophore, Ediacaran biota, fossil record, fossils, Gondwana Research, Günter Bechly, GUT, Joseph Botting, macrofossils, Margaretia, microfossils, National Museum Wales, paleontologists, paleontology, perforations, precambrian fossils, preservation, Science (journal), Science Daily, symmetry, Tamengo Formation, worms}

More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
May 17, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, clades, Darwin’s Doubt, David Coppedge, Douglas Erwin, evolution, evolutionary precursors, Gizmodo, intelligent design, James Valentine, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygen trigger model, oxygenation, paleontologists, paleontology, partial pressure of oxygen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Cambrian Explosion (book)}

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
January 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›

Close-up horse eye, expressive gaze. Possible use Animal portrait, nature, wildlife

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, central dogma, Darwinian evolution, entropy, irreversibility, Jacques Monod, materialism, molecular biology, mutations, natural causes, natural selection, paleontologists, physical causes, primates, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sexuality}

Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, beauty, biochemistry, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Europe, Giuseppe Sermonti, Grzegorz Malec, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Italy, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Nature, Norway, order, paleontologists, physiology, Poland, Seattle, United Kingdom, United States, utilitarianism, Venice}

At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future

_{John G. West
October 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, fishing, Günter Bechly, headlines, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, newspapers, paleontologists, Paris, Princeton University, Scopes trial, Spain, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, Genesis, genome, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›