Tag: random variation

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australian Aboriginals, brain, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, compartmentalization, creationism, Darwinism, digestive system, dualism, evolution, false dilemma, hereditarianism, human lineages, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, IQ gap, J. B. S. Haldane, lungs, men, Native Americans, natural selection, Nicobar Islands, Personality and Individual Differences, Racism, random variation, retconning, savages, skin, sub-Saharan Africans, tails, women}

21st-Century Darwinism’s Impossible Situation

_{Daniel Witt
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, comparative biology, complex functional systems, Cornelius Hunter, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, gene duplications, Google Scholar, honesty, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, National Geographic, natural selection, Nature Chemical Biology, Potemkin village, random variation, recombination, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, whales}

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

_{Michael Behe
May 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›

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post

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian scientists, evolution, history of life, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Life Sciences, natural selection, podcast, random variation, teleology, universe}

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

_{Science and Culture
August 30, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

1}

Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autopoiesis, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, molecular structures, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, chromosomes, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, emperor penguins, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, Grand Unified Theory, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, self-replicating molecules, sexual reproduction, synergistic selection, synergy, The Design Inference, turtles, William A. Dembski}

Synergies All the Way Down

_{Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagella, biological systems, Brown University, complexity, Conservation of Information, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian pathways, Douglas Axe, epilogue, evolution, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural selection, No Free Lunch, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference}

An Argument from Ignorance?

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, California State University, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian racism, evolution, human dignity, human rights, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, podcast, Racism, random variation, Richard Weikart}

Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity

_{Science and Culture
July 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

1}

If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value? Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, accidents, animal breeding, Aristotle, bats, bootstraps, chaos, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, entropy, evolution, farmer, functional complexity, humans, intelligent design, microbes, natural selection, pandemic, PZ Myers, random variation, teleology}

Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

Undirected natural selection can’t lift itself by its own bootstraps — accidents can’t happen in nature except in a sea of design. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, evolution, Harvard University, ID the Future, Michael Keas, natural selection, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, podcast, random variation, scientism, The World of Life}

Historian and Nature’s Prophet Author Michael Flannery Reviews the Reviewers

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

A.R. Wallace was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection along with Charles Darwin, but in 1869 he broke with Darwin. Read More ›