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Date
January 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
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, 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

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

Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One

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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 ›

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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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, __cedited, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

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April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, amino-acid sequences, Caltech, Cambridge, cells, Darwinian evolution, design, directed evolution, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, genes, intelligent design, New York Times, Nobel Prize, protein evolution, selection, University of Missouri}

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

_{Douglas Axe
October 3, 2018

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ethan Siegel, evolution, Forbes, general relativity, inheritance, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Newtonian mechanics, predictions, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution}

For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

_{David Klinghoffer
August 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›