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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", cattle, Charles Darwin, crustaceans, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, fish, Herbert Spencer, horses, intelligent design, James Tour, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jonathan Wells, mollusks, natural selection, organisms, oxygen, oxymoron, puppies, purpose, science of purpose, selection, sheep, speciation, Stephen Meyer, variations, water}

A New Look at Natural Selection

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 18, 2023

Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Cambrian News, David A. Hullender, Elsevier, evolution, Evolution News, genome, Krebs cycle, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, Olen R. Brown, On the Origin of Species, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Research, selection, South Africa}

Peer-Reviewed Paper: “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

_{Casey Luskin
March 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BBC News, biomimicry, computer programs, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, fitness, intelligent design, Living Waters, mutations, offspring, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, Richard Dawkins, robots, selection, Star Trek, Star Wars, Switzerland, Tim Berra, William Shakespeare}

Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done

_{David Coppedge
February 23, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chairs, creationists, cytoskeleton, design constraint, diet, ecological niches, evolution, genes, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, lifestyle, locomotion, memory, metabolism, migration, p-value, phylogenetics, selection, separate ancestry, splicing, synapomorphy, tinkering, YouTube videos}

Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

_{Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, CSI, dependency graph, DNA, evolution, explanatory power, Forrest Mims, genomes, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, nested hierarchy, predictions, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Science (journal), Scientific American, selection, software, Susumu Ohno, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), The Selfish Gene, Winston Ewert}

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antigens, DNA, genetic information, genetic variations, intelligent agents, intelligent design, mutations, polymerase, selection, sexual reproduction, UV radiation}

Examining Sources of Genetic Change

_{Emily Reeves
July 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Eric Bapteste, a researcher at Sorbonne University, just co-authored a review discussing genetic change in the context of aging. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Darwinism, English, evolutionary theory, genes, German, intelligent design, interview, Italian, Marco Respinti, Max Planck Institute, Michael Behe, mutations, radiation, scientists, selection, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

A New Interview with Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

_{Granville Sewell
April 13, 2021

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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To those who say ID advocates are only critical of Darwinism because they are not sufficiently versed in genetics, I have a two-word reply. Read More ›

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Date
January 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, deception, Dollo’s Law, Duke University, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, fruit flies, genes, Icarus, Indiana University, PNAS, positive selection, Santa Fe Institute, selection, skin color, UC Berkeley, University of Zurich, word salad, Yale University}

Juggling Terms to Maintain the Illusion of Darwinian Selection

_{Science & Culture
January 28, 2021

Evolution

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Evolutionists do not mind if selection goes forward, backward, up, down or sideways, as long as Darwin’s honor is maintained. Read More ›

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Date
May 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, cells, Darwinians, Darwinism, evolutionists, fitness, mutations, organisms, PNAS, protein evolution, proteins, pseudogenes, selection}

Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One

_{Science & Culture
May 20, 2020

Evolution

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If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects. Read More ›