Tag: population genetics

Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assumptions, biology, Casey Luskin, complex biological features, cosmic fine-tuning, DNA, Elon Musk, end of year, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary models, intelligent design, irreducibly complex features, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, peer-reviewed literature, population genetics, predictions, Research, RNA splicing, Salvo Magazine, sugar code, systems biology, Terrell Clemmons, Third Way of Evolution, Tree of Life}

Luskin: The State of the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Terrell Clemmons asked, "Where have you seen the ID movement make strides?" This is some of the material that I wish someone would share with Elon Musk. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, monarch butterfly, natural selection, Not by Chance, podcast, population genetics, species, The Evolution Revolution}

Lee Spetner Took Aim at Natural Selection and Population Genetics

_{Science and Culture
August 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Spetner, a PhD from MIT, discusses natural selection, what it can and cannot do. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antennapedia, body plans, Caltech, Darwin's Doubt, dGRNs, embryo, enzymes, Eric Davidson, evo-devo, Explore Evolution, Gerd Müller, Hox genes, Jeffrey Schwartz, John McDonald, macroevolution, microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, population genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Joe Rogan Experience, University of Vienna}

Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo

_{Casey Luskin
July 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Big Bang, body plans, coordinated mutations, Fossil Friday (series), herpetology, lizards, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan}

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

_{Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Read More ›

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post

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, John Sanford, limits of evolution, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, species pair challenge, species pairs, 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

78}

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, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, Devonian Nekton Revolution, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, GOBE, 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

83}

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 ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Levant, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, population genetics, uranium}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

6}

The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academics, alumni, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary, Human Errors, intelligent design, mathematical biology, misinformation, molecular biology, Nathan Lents, paleontology, population genetics, professionals, researchers, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, The Blind Watchmaker, Unlocking the Mystery of Life}

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

_{Brian Miller
March 7, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, allometric growth, crocodilians, Darwinian mechanisms, Early Triassic, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, nothosaurs, paleontology, Permian, plesiosaurs, population genetics, sea snake, sea turtle, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

7}

The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, bottleneck, dogmatism, evolutionary biologists, faith and science, humans, population, population genetics, Richard Buggs, Science (journal)}

New Article in Science Boosts Plausibility of a Primordial Pair

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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These new developments underscore the fact that there is no room for dogmatism about claims concerning the smallest population size of humans. Read More ›