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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, circular reasoning, Darwin on Trial, Discovery Institute, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker}

Phil Johnson Helped Set the Course of My Life

_{Brian Miller
November 6, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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During my early years of graduate school, I was wrestling with the question of whether I was an unintended accident of nature or the product of a Creator. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Divine Foot, Donald Prothero, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Laurence Moran, Martin Gaskell, New York Times, Phillip E. Johnson, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, The New York Review of Books, U.C. Berkeley, University of Kentucky}

Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial

_{David Berlinski
November 6, 2019

Evolution

12}

There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __cedited, Bible, BioLogos, Christians, deism, design detection, evolution, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Peaceful Science, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, The Blind Watchmaker, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, Washington University}

Answering Joshua Swamidass: What Do Theistic Evolutionists Believe?

_{Ann Gauger
August 24, 2018

Faith & Science

10}

There are innumerable descriptions and definitions of theistic evolution. How things are phrased matters a lot. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 11, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, blood vessels, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, George Williams, Human Errors, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Nathan Lents, The Blind Watchmaker, Zombie Science (book)}

There You Go Again, Nathan Lents

_{Jonathan Wells
May 11, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

“The human eye is a well-tread [sic] example of how evolution can produce a clunky design,” writes Professor Lents. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, book, cells, Eugene Koonin, evolution, genetic code, intelligent design, mind, multiverse, natural processes, null hypothesis, Ockham’s razor, p-value, Richard Dawkins, science, The Blind Watchmaker, universes}

Reality Check: Has Science Explained the Origin of Life?

_{Kirk Durston
May 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

Imagine you wanted someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what a book is to make a book from scratch. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
April 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, retina, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate}

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
April 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __cedited, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, Eric Hedin, evolution, First Amendment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Napoleon, Pierre-Simon Laplace, religion, Richard Dawkins, teaching, The Blind Watchmaker, University of Chicago, Why Evolution Is True}

The (Ir)religious Theory of Evolution – A Darwinist Gets Called Out

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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University of Chicago evolutionist Jerry Coyne suffers from cognitive dissonance. Read More ›

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Date
December 3, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, Ann Gauger, antibodies, antigens, BIO-Complexity, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, human eye, intelligent design, Jonathan Bartlett, machines, Modern Synthesis, molecular machines, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, proteins, Richard Dawkins, teleology, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene}

Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology

_{Science & Culture
December 3, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

5}

The human eye is for seeing, whether or not it has any effect on genetics. However, this common-sense view has a problem. Read More ›

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post

Date
October 31, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Darwinism, Nature, Science, The Blind Watchmaker, watchmaker}

Return of the Blind Watchmaker

_{Science & Culture
October 31, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Nature lets slip a comparison between what biochemical engineers make and what blind nature supposedly accomplished. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 23, 2016

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, evolutionary informatics, hallucinations, Hamlet, information theory, Richard Dawkins, simulations, The Blind Watchmaker, thought experiment, Weasel program, William Shakespeare}

Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed

_{Jonathan Witt
September 23, 2016

Arts, Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Evolution

9}

His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony. Read More ›