Tag: theoretical biology

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Date
December 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Brian Charlesworth, circularity, complexity, cooking, courage, diversity, drink, evolution, evolutionary biology, fitness, food, holidays, inheritance, intelligent design, Interface Focus, Jerry Coyne, Michael Levin, natural induction, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, parsimony, Richard Dawkins, Richard Watson, Royal Society, seafood, spices, theoretical biology, Tim Lewens, Tufts University, variation, vegetables}

Michael Levin: “Evolution by Natural Induction” (By What?)

_{Science and Culture
December 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Levin and his colleagues are unintimidated by those bullies who labor to forestall a crackup on the orthodox evolutionary team. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

10}

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, assemblages, assembly, atoms, BIO-Complexity, biosignatures, blueprint, CAD/CAM, cell death, complexity, crystals, fingers, Lee Cronin, Lego, Leslie Orgel, molecules, Nature (journal), peptide bond, Professor Dave, Santa Fe Institute, Sara Walker, The Origins of Life, theoretical biology}

Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

_{William A. Dembski
July 26, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

35}

When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, analytic philosophy, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Center for Science and Culture, Columbia University, Darwinism, David Berlinski, evolution, Holocaust, human nature, Humanize, Newton’s Gift, podcast, Princeton University, theoretical biology}

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

_{Science and Culture
March 17, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy

2}

We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 31, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotic cell, Irreducible Complexity, Kevin Williamson, Lehigh University, molecular evolution, multiverse, National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, National Review, PNAS, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Richard Sternberg, Scott Minnich, stem, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution, theoretical biology, University of Idaho}

When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 31, 2019

Scientific Freedom

6}

Kevin Williamson imagines that scientists are free to “slug it out” in journals and other academic settings, so that the truth reliably emerges. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 6, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, Facebook Live, intelligent design, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, theoretical biology}

Chatting with Biologist Richard Sternberg About a Formative Intellectual Experience

_{David Klinghoffer
December 6, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Sternberg described an encounter with theoretical biologist Robert Rosen and his work. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
July 26, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __tedited, degradative mutations, natural processes, natural selection, population genetics, presuppositions, probabilities, real world, realism, theoretical biology}

Scientific Inaccuracies, False Accusations: Concluding My Response to Joseph Felsenstein

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
July 26, 2016

Evolution, Genetics

13}

Allow me, then, to introduce myself to Dr. Felsenstein. Read More ›