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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, adaptation, behavior, body size, Brown University, David N. Reznick, downstream, eggs, evolution, females, Finding Darwin's God, fish, genetic diversity, guppies, J.B.S. Haldane, Kenneth Miller, morphology, mutations, natural selection, physiology, population dynamics, predators, random mutation, upstream, variation}

Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?

_{Emily Reeves
May 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, engineers, heritability, Howard Glicksman, human body, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, random mutation, Steve Laufmann, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

_{Science and Culture
July 5, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Epistemology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, design detection, divine intervention, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, natural selection, random mutation, Religions (journal), Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, theologians, University of Helsinki}

Peer-Reviewed Paper by Discovery Institute Staff Evaluates Synthesis of “Design and Evolution”

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2023

Biology, Epistemology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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We regard Kojonen’s model as nuanced, erudite, and fair-minded. It is a model of fine scholarship and deserves serious attention. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2023

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
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, Andrew McDiarmid, Carbon Valley, cells, Crossway, Douglas Axe, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, molecular biologists, natural selection, podcast, random mutation, Silicon Valley, smartphone, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

_{Science and Culture
June 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, Africans, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, colonialism, Darwin Comes to Africa, ethnicity, Europe, Europeans, evolution, French Guinea, historiography, Joseph Stalin, morality, nationality, natural selection, Nigeria, pseudoscience, race, Racism, random mutation, religion, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, tiger}

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
February 21, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
December 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, genes, natural selection, offspring, organisms, random mutation, teleological language, teleology, The Scientist, twins}

Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences

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Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
August 15, 2022

Evolution, Science

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial structures}

#9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record

_{Emily Reeves
December 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›