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S. Joshua Swamidass

Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by permission of Dr. Swamidass.

Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate” 

Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain. Read More ›
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Photo: An old tree, South Australia, by Jacqui Barker (uploaded by Jacopo Werther) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Answering Joshua Swamidass: What Do Theistic Evolutionists Believe?

There are innumerable descriptions and definitions of theistic evolution. How things are phrased matters a lot. Read More ›
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Answering Joshua Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: A Religious Agenda?

He defines himself as a Christian who affirms evolution, while also rejecting the name theistic evolutionist. Read More ›
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Photo: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute.

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Dabar Postscript

A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins

I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife. Read More ›
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Discussion Over: On Adam and the Genome, Former BioLogos Fellow Backs Down

Dennis Venema sought to persuade his fellow Christians that genetic science had disproven the traditional idea of a “bottleneck” of two human ancestors. Read More ›
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Of Whales and Timescales

The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›
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Image: Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise, by Paolo Veronese [Public domain], c. 1580-1588, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is There a First Human Couple in Our Past? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Emma Hammarlund and Sofie Mohlin, via Lund University.

Sick of the Oxygen Theory of the Cambrian Explosion? Here’s the Cancer Theory

Once upon a time, a cell became a tumor. Animals were soon to follow. Read More ›

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