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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian scientists, evolution, history of life, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Life Sciences, natural selection, podcast, random variation, teleology, universe}

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

_{Science & Culture
August 30, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, accident, creator, Daniel Witt, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, evolution, genes, goal, intelligent design, life, meaning, molecules, Nature (journal), Oxford University, purpose, Richard Dawkins, teleology, The Selfish Gene}

Oxford Biologist Denis Noble: “The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”

_{Casey Luskin
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I respect Denis Noble and in disagreeing with him I do not mean to slight his deep insights into how biology works. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astronomers, black hole, cells, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James Barham, James Shapiro, life, Michael Levin, Mind Matters, natural, naturalism, panpsychism, self-replication, sentience, signaling, symbiosis, teleology, Tufts University, University of Chicago, unnatural, vitalism}

What Is the Essence of Life?

_{Eric Hedin
February 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The strength of the intelligent design explanation for life lies in its full-orbed ability to address all aspects of life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, breathing, causality, Charles Darwin, chemical reactions, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, earth, heart, Inertia, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Moon, physical constants, rationality, science of purpose, teleology, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas}

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 15, 2024

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cervix, DNA, egg cell, fertilization, flagellum, foresight, Harvard University, human reproduction, infant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cells, teleology, uterus, zygote}

No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Quarterly Review, scientism, St. George Mivart, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›