Tag: Tree of Life

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 12, 2025

Categories
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, American Civil Liberties Union, Antonin Scalia, Ball State University, Clarence Darrow, Council of Europe, Dayton, Discovery Institute, DNA, Epperson v. Arkansas, Eric Hedin, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, fossil record, freedom from religion foundation, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Kitzmiller v. Dover, monkey law, public schools, Richard Sternberg, Scopes v. State, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Jay Gould, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Texas, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, University of Idaho, William Jennings Bryan}

Scopes in Reverse: A History of Evolution Education in U.S. Public Schools

_{Casey Luskin
December 12, 2025

Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Undoubtedly there will be more court cases and curriculum battles in the future over how to teach evolution. Read More ›

Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, assumptions, biology, Casey Luskin, complex biological features, cosmic fine-tuning, DNA, Elon Musk, end of year, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary models, intelligent design, irreducibly complex features, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, peer-reviewed literature, population genetics, predictions, Research, RNA splicing, Salvo Magazine, sugar code, systems biology, Terrell Clemmons, Third Way of Evolution, Tree of Life}

Luskin: The State of the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Terrell Clemmons asked, "Where have you seen the ID movement make strides?" This is some of the material that I wish someone would share with Elon Musk. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, biology, circuitry, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's tree, discontinuity, embryonic development, endowed by our creator, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary tree, function, generative entrenchment, monophyletic tree, natural selection, nature, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Chicago, William Wimsatt}

“Generative Entrenchment”: A Fundamental Problem for Darwin’s Tree

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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An “entity” may be so fundamental, so entrenched, arising so early in embryonic development, that it can't be toyed with by evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, biochemistry, biochemists, Biola University, biomolecules, biosphere, cancer, curcumin, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, diseases, drugs, flavonoids, humans, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, leaf extract, lutein, lycopene, Magnolia alba, medicine, Michael Behe, nanoparticles, photocatalytic, polyphenols, red grapefruit, Research, Richard Gunasekera, Scientific Reports, side effects, tomato, Tree of Life}

Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
October 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, Communism, Conservation of Information, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, democracy, freedom, George Weigel, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Paul Nelson, Poland, Robert Stackpole, social realism, theistic evolution, theology, Tree of Life, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Pact, William A. Dembski, World War II}

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
July 9, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Baltic amber, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Ludwig van Beethoven, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Cambridge, University of Oklahoma}

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 26, 2024

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

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, intelligent design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley}

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

_{Casey Luskin
December 31, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, University of Nottingham, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›