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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 26, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algebra, algorithms, Charles Darwin, Evangelical Christianity, Grand Unified Theory, Irreducible Complexity, Issac Newton, James Ferguson, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Michael Behe, Nicolaus Copernicus, religion, Theory of Everything, Why Evolution Is True}

Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

_{Robert Shedinger
December 26, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Doug Monroe, ID the Future, information, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Praxis Circle, religion, Research, science, scientific revolution, Shannon information, specified information, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer: Did Belief in God Make Modern Science Possible?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 11, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Dr. Meyer explains the difference between mathematical information, or Shannon information, and specified information, a more meaningful type of information. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Big Tech, Bryan Leonard, Caroline Crocker, Cassini mission, censorship, Darwinists, Dave Speijer, David Coppedge, evolution, free speech, George Mason University, Germany, government, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jonathan Wells, Mississippi University for Women, Nancy Bryson, Ohio State University, paradigms, political revolutions, religion, Roger DeHart, Saturn, scientific revolutions, Stuttgart, Thomas Kuhn}

Theory in Crisis? Circling the Wagons

_{Jonathan Wells
September 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn compared scientific revolutions to political revolutions. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
September 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Tagged
, atheism, beauty, Central Park, E.O. Wilson, evolution, Jonathan Haidt, religion, schools, social psychology, transcendence}

Why Are We Drawn to Beauty?

_{Peter Biles
September 12, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education

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While I love Haidt’s emphasis and regard for the beautiful, I question the power of his argument about beauty as a remnant of our collective survival instinct. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Genetics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, boxing, Canada, censorship, chromosomes, evolutionary biologists, Facebook, free speech, Jerry Coyne, misinformation, Moon, Olympics, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, Scientific American, sex binary, Sports, testosterone, The Last Supper, wokeness, women}

Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Genetics, Scientific Freedom

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Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christianity, cultural Christianity, evolutionary biologist, New Atheists, new york, religion, Richard Dawkins, weekend, William A. Dembski}

Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 21, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, dexterity, efficiency, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Panda's Thumb, philosophers, podcast, precision, religion, science, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, trade-offs}

The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 21, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostics, biologists, cosmologists, creationists, Darwin’s Bluff, evidence, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, hagiography, linguists, Luther College, nature, religion, Robert Shedinger, scientific evidence, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, demythologization, dogmatism, evolution, history, intelligent design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick}

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

_{Jonathan Witt
February 12, 2024

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, death, Emory University, Europe, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, human origins, humans, invertebrates, life, life after death, Neanderthals, octopuses, Psychology Today, religion, symbolic thinking, uncanny valley}

Were Neanderthals Religious?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 6, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›