Tag: storytelling

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beards, birds, brassiere, cows, Deborah Kellerman, DNA switch, EMBO Reports, evolution, Evolving Minds Project, fingernails, fish, flies, health, horned lizard, Ig Nobel Prizes, Igs, Improbable Research, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, Lasker Prize, leopard, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), pangolin, paw pads, protocells, pufferfish, Regina Nuzzo, seahorse, storytelling, super-alcohol, supernova, Titan, turtle, Vladimir Leksa, vole}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

Old fashioned television set with green screen displaying static noise in a vintage living room with outdated furniture.

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Arts
Linguistics
Sociology
Tagged
, Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people}

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

_{Peter Biles
August 29, 2025

Arts, Linguistics, Sociology

5}

Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 5, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", arthritis, automobile, biceps, bursa, Cheddar News, chimpanzees, clavicle, collarbone, Columbia University, deltoid muscle, diet, DNA, evolution, exercise, feces, flat tire, flexibility, forearm, hip joint, human body, human shoulder, humerus, intelligent design, muscle, Natalia Ryzak, posture, rotator cuff, scapula, shoulder, shoulder blade, shoulder problems, stability, storytelling, throwing, tornado, trapezius muscle, zoos}

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 5, 2024

Anatomy, Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

10}

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, aerodynamics, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, flapping, Flight, forelimb, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, Liaoning, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, empirical data, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Harvard University, just-so stories, mammals, paleontology, reptiles, shells, skeletons, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

_{Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

3}

In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), monkeys, New World monkeys, Oligocene, Paleogene, Platyrrhini, Powerball, rafting monkeys, reptiles, seafaring, South America, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Science
Technology
Tagged
, addiction, Andrew McDiarmid, animals, Bible, Big Tech, Braveheart, characters, consciousness, Dennis Prager, devices, Dogs, Eric Metaxas, Google, humans, Internet, Michael Medved, nature, New York Post, pets, Sabbath, storytelling}

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 1, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Science, Technology

3}

That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary biology, fairy tales, humans, just-so stories, nonhumans, Simona Ginsberg, soul, Stephen Jay Gould, storytelling}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 13, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", arthritis, automobile, bursa, Cheddar News, chimpanzees, clavicle, collarbone, Columbia University, deltoid muscle, diet, DNA, evolution, exercise, feces, flat tire, flexibility, forearm, hip joint, human body, human shoulder, humerus, intelligent design, Natalia Ryzak, posture, rotator cuff, scapula, shoulder, shoulder blade, shoulder problems, stability, storytelling, throwing, tornado, trapezius muscle, zoos}

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

_{Jonathan Wells
May 13, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

10}

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›