Tag: speciation

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anole lizards, Charles Darwin, complex systems, complexity, Democrats, empiricism, evidence for evolution, evolution, foresight, gene flow, Georgia Tech, hemoglobin, lactose, mice, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, Republicans, Rosemary Grant, speciation, The Atlantic, Tibet, University of Konstanz}

“Evolution in Real Time” (Yeah, Right)

_{Daniel Witt
January 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

Yet another article announces a sociological study has found public attention towards the lionfish “is aiding in monitoring its evolution nearly in real time.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A Philosopher Looks at Science, abiogenesis, Alister McGrath, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, John Ray, magisteria, materialism, Meister Eckhart, Moses, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Philo of Alexandria, Richard Dawkins, speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, Tertullian, The God Delusion, theology, William Paley}

Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

_{Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

16}

This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Canada, cladogenesis, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Montana, natural selection, speciation, Tyrannosaurus rex}

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›

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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", antifreeze, 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, pine tree, 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

5}

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
Günter Bechly

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, convergence, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Galápagos Islands, genetic information, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, Michael Behe, microevolution, mutations, peer-reviewed journals, Professor Dave, speciation, Stephen Meyer, waiting-time problem, young people, YouTubers}

“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

_{Günter Bechly
December 12, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

65}

The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Br'er Rabbit, Darwinism, ecosystem, emperor penguins, Industrial Revolution, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, North America, organisms, purpose, purposelessness, science of purpose, spawning, speciation, struggle, teleology}

A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

You cannot see what you are not looking for. You cannot find Br'er Rabbit until you look into the briar patch. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, chihuahua, Douglas Futuyma, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Japan, Keith Stewart Thomson, Lynn Margulis, microevolution, Richard Goldschmidt, Rudolf Raff, Scott Gilbert, southern Africa, speciation, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series)}

What Are the Top Scientific Problems with Evolution?

_{Jonathan Wells
February 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology

4}

No sane person believes that nothing changes over time, or that the cosmos, technology, and culture have no history. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biblical flood, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Homo sapiens, John Donne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), naturalists, Noah’s Ark, Principles of Geology, Samuel Johnson, South Sea Islands, speciation, species, tortoise, transmutation, uniformitarianism}

Darwin’s John the Baptist

_{Neil Thomas
January 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences

5}

Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›

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Date
June 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, birds, Brazil, Colin Patterson, convergence, Darwinism, extinction, fruit, macroevolution, molecular phylogeny, predictions, Science (journal), seeds, speciation, Switzerland}

What Do Biologists Really Know About Macroevolution?

_{Science and Culture
June 23, 2021

Evolution

8}

There lives in biology a great consensus truth that evaporates upon close scrutiny. Read More ›