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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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, academics, 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

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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
, Darwinian mechanisms, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, paleontology, population genetics, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

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

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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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
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, 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 ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, BioLogos, chimpanzees, computational biology, Dennis Venema, Endogenous retroviruses, evolutionary creation, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, junk DNA, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University London, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm, Washington University}

Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The fossil record shows a break between the australopithecines, supposedly directly ancestral to our genus, and the first humanlike members of the genus. Read More ›

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Date
June 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
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, Albert Einstein, Brian Greene, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, history, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Keas, Michael Ruse, molecular machines, particle physics, Peter Robinson, philosophy of biology, population genetics, punctuated equilibrium, Reductionism, René Thom, science, Science After Babel, Standard Model, Stephen Jay Gould, taxonomy, Tower of Babel, William Dembksi}

New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

_{Science & Culture
June 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Eric Anderson, evolution, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, parents, podcast, population genetics, protein evolution, proteins, waiting-time problem}

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 30, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, ecological niches, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genes, genetic changes, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, marine reptiles, mutations, North America, population genetics, sharks, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
April 28, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Paleontology

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The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chatbot, ChatGPT, ENCODE project, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, evolution, Evolution News, habitability, human genome, intelligent design, intelligent designer, John Mattick, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, molecular biology, mutations, Nature (journal), null hypothesis, Paul Nelson, population genetics, Wikipedia}

Evolutionist Claims ChatGPT “Lies About Junk DNA”

_{Eric Hedin
April 20, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A null hypothesis, such as expecting the absence of function in non-coding DNA, reveals a presupposition that biases one’s interpretation of the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, biodiversity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, marine reptiles, Norway, population genetics, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›