Tag: systematics

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 31, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academics, ACLU, animal behavior, C. W. Howell, design detection, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Dover trial, Duke University, evolution, Expelled (movie), genomics, Google searches, hare, human body, intelligent cause, intelligent design, linchpin, media attention, Michael Behe, molecular biology, National Center for Science Education, New York University Press, paleontology, peer-reviewed papers, Pennsylvania, Phillip Johnson, PragerU, protein science, research program, Seattle, snowballs, Stephen Meyer, students, Summer Seminars, systematics, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Story of Everything, tortoise, universe, YouTube videos}

Steady and Consistent Growth: The Real Story of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 31, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Snowballs start small. But they grow steadily over time, and after a while they really start to get large and pick up speed. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, Chordata, chordates, common ancestor, evolution, genomes, hominid, Homo sapiens, inference, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, mammals, Metazoa, Network of Life, ontology, organisms, Pan troglodytes, paragraphs, phylogenetic inference, phylogenetics, phylogeny, species, statistical noise, Systematic Biology, systematics, traits, Tree of Life}

Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You

_{Science & Culture
August 12, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

2}

You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Read More ›

Modern white laboratory interior with scientists in lab coats working on computers and test tubes, motion blur effect for dynamic research scene

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 29, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, biomechanics, Biomimetics, Brian Miller, constraints, Emily Reeves, expectations, function, functional information, genetics, Genetics (journal), George Montañez, intelligence, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, Michael Behe, neurophysiology, peer-reviewed literature, predictions, protein science, purpose, Research, Robert J. Marks, scientific theory, scientists, Stuart Burgess, systematics, Systems Biology, William Dembksi, Winston Ewert}

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

_{Casey Luskin
July 29, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

7}

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, common descent, Darwinian evolution, entomology, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, morphology, Neo-Darwinism, Paleocene, paleoentomology, paleontology, phylogeny, stem group, stratigraphy, systematics, Tree of Life}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

179}

We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›

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post

Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, common ancestor, common ancestry, convergence, convergent evolution, dolphins, evolution, evolutionary processes, fish, intelligent design, lineages, natural selection, paleontology, Paul Nelson, preconditions, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, sharks, solutions, swimming, systematics, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

_{Emily Reeves
January 9, 2024

Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

7}

Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, cancer, cell biology, complex and specified information, diseases, enzymes, evolutionary computation, galactic habitable zone, information, information theory, intelligent agency, intelligent design, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, molecular machines, paleontology, physiology, predictions, protein science, science stopper, systematics}

It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Physics

10}

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, biologists, cladistics, entomologists, entomology, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, Protestantism, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, Willi Hennig}

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 9, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, cancer, cell biology, complex and specified information, diseases, enzymes, evolutionary computation, galactic habitable zone, information, information theory, intelligent agency, intelligent design, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, molecular machines, paleontology, physiology, predictions, protein science, science stopper, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series)}

Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
May 9, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Physics

10}

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›

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post

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

11}

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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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplanes, bats, cars, cell phones, characters, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, common design, computers, convergence, echolocation, evolution, experiment, eyes, genes, hypothesis, intelligent agents, intelligent design, limbs, observation, phylogenetic analysis, phylogeny, species, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), trees, whales, wheels}

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Systematics (the Relationships Between Organisms)

_{Casey Luskin
April 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The re-usage of highly similar and complex parts in widely different organisms in non-treelike patterns is best explained by the action of an intelligent agent. Read More ›