Tag: Stephen Jay Gould | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, Ian Tattersall, National Academy of Sciences, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Science Uprising, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer}

Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
January 5, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, evolution, fossil record, Hallucigenia, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, organs, oxygen, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia}

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
November 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Viking mission, William Harvey}

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021

Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology

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Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ancient Near East, Christianity, Denisovans, dinosaurs, Evolution News, Exodus, Genesis, Gospels, Hebrew, hominids, Homo sapiens, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Middle East, Neanderthals, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Satan, Scripture, Stephen Jay Gould, Young Earth Creationists}

Is Genesis “Mytho-History”? As a Guide to Scripture, William Lane Craig’s Book Falls Short

_{Casey Luskin
November 9, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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As an old earther, I was dismayed by Craig’s failure to engage with common old earth interpretations of Genesis. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 20, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, evolution, hurricane, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, William Paley}

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
September 20, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 16, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eugenie Scott, evolutionary biology, geologists, historical sciences, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Jonathan Witt, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Planck time, specified complexity, specified information, Stephen Jay Gould, William A. Dembski}

Answering an Objection: “You Can’t Measure Intelligent Design”

_{Casey Luskin
July 16, 2021

Cosmology, Geology, Intelligent Design

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We test intelligent design in the same way that we test all historical scientific theories. Read More ›

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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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Date
July 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alleles, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, evolution, Germany, hybridization, mutations, Science Advances, Stephen Jay Gould, U.C. Berkeley}

Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

_{Science & Culture
July 2, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 1, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Blaise Pascal, Bret Weinstein, Christopher Hitchens, Evergreen State College, human nature, Jonathan Haidt, New Atheists, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Substack, theists}

Where Steve Meyer Agrees with an Atheist Marxist

_{Bethel McGrew
May 1, 2021

Faith & Science

5}

The New Atheism is dead, or so maverick writer Freddie deBoer argues. But that doesn’t mean the New Atheists lost. 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 ›