Tag: textbooks

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, birds, Biston betularia, body plans, branches, Charles Darwin, coloration, Cornelius Hunter, creationism, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, fundamentalist Christians, Great Britain, Icons of Evolution, IFL Science, Jonathan Wells, Katie Spalding, Michael Majerus, moth wings, moths, natural selection, New York Times, organs, peppered moths, Science and Culture Today, textbooks, trunks, twigs, Zombie Science}

Pop Science Site Enlists the Peppered Moth to Attack Religion

_{Casey Luskin
November 17, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

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If this is an “excellent” example of “Darwinian evolution in action,” it shows that Darwinian evolution doesn’t do very much. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain regions, decision-making, hindbrain, human thinking, Live Science, Matteo Carandini, midbrain, motor regions, mouse study, muscle responses, neurons, pop psychology, processing, R. J. Mackenzie, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionists, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology}

Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artwork, books, candor, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, humor, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, illustrators, ink, Jay Richards, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, journals, machines, magazines, materialist paradigm, organisms, Paul Nelson, pen, podcast, Richard Sternberg, textbooks, Tom Woodward, visual media}

On Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, podcast, skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield}

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology textbooks, Bremerton, Casey Luskin, celebration of life, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Donald Rumsfeld, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Haeckel’s embryos, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Josie Wells, Peter Wells, Plato, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, scientists, textbooks}

Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Strikes Back, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Doubts About Darwin, Eugenie Scott, evolution, history, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, misinformation, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), podcast, textbooks, Tom Woodward}

Woodward: The Impact of Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tom Woodward has been ubiquitous in the unfolding culture war over intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antoine Lavoisier, Darwinism, electromagnetic wave, evolution, Evolution: A Theory is Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, gravity, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Denton, oxygen, paradigms, textbooks, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, theology, Thomas Kuhn}

Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What does it mean to say that a theory is “in crisis”? It’s not enough to point out that a theory is inconsistent with evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brazil, Center for Science and Culture, Communism, Darwin's Finches, Discovery Institute, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Leavenworth, Lucy Wells, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, peppered moths, Phillip E. Johnson, remembrance, San Francisco, Science Uprising, science writers, scientists, textbooks, The Myth of Junk DNA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Vietnam War, Yale University, Zombie Science (book)}

Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›