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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Marxism, Minnesota, Richard Lewontin, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish}

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

_{Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", information, intelligent design, materialism, methodological naturalism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, science stopper, scientists, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

_{Bethel McGrew
April 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Benjamin Wiker, Bruce Chapman, California, creationism, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Expelled (movie), fossil record, From Darwin to Hitler, intelligent design, Internet, Karl Popper, Kathie Johnson, Michael Shermer, Nazism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, punctuated equilibrium, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Richard Weikart, Stephen Jay Gould, The American Spectator, Tom Bethell}

Our Friend, Tom Bethell

_{Jonathan Wells
March 15, 2021

Evolution

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On February 12, 2021, Tom Bethell passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 3, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, consciousness, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, evolution, Francis Collins, geneticists, methodological naturalism, natural selection, particle physics, Paul Davies, population genetics, Richard Lewontin, The Language of God, universe}

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

_{Robert Shedinger
February 3, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creator, Darwinists, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Harvard University, intelligent design, materialism, multiverse, organisms, Richard Lewontin, RNA, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books}

Darwin’s Silver Chair

_{Jonathan Witt
June 10, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 26, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, black holes, censorship, Darwinists, free will, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, materialists, mind, morality, Nature, neuroscience, Richard Lewontin, Singularity, teleology}

Lewontin’s Confession and Mamet’s Principle

_{Michael Egnor
May 26, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The pretense not to know things is at the root of Darwinist/atheist/materialist ideology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

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As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Divine Foot, Donald Prothero, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Laurence Moran, Martin Gaskell, New York Times, Phillip E. Johnson, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, The New York Review of Books, U.C. Berkeley, University of Kentucky}

Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial

_{David Berlinski
November 6, 2019

Evolution

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There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 23, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Alpha Centauri, atheism, Big Bang, careers, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christians, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, earth, intelligent design, Jews, John Zmirak, Michael Behe, multiverse, nature, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Stream}

Peace Through ETs? John Zmirak’s Puckish Proposal

_{David Klinghoffer
February 23, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Interested in a resolution of the dispute between scientific atheists and intelligent design? Read More ›