Tag: universal common ancestry

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 17, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, epicycles, evolution, Evolution News, genes, geocentric model, ID the Future, intelligent design, phylogenomics, Richard Dawkins, solar system, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry}

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan Witt
May 17, 2023

Astronomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, placental mammals, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), Triassic explosion, universal common ancestry}

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

_{Science & Culture
April 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›

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Date
April 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Crossway, Darwinism, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, paleontology, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry}

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

_{Science & Culture
April 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

1}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Annual Review of Genetics, DNA, evolution, hierarchy, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, RNA, universal common ancestry}

Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
September 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary tree, Genome Research, hierarchy, intelligent design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

_{Casey Luskin
September 7, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biogeography, cells, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, intelligent design, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses}

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

_{Casey Luskin
June 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

9}

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, common descent, Darwinian mechanism, DiscoveryU, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Thanksgiving, universal common ancestry, video course}

Q&A with Behe: Your Thoughts on Common Descent?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 27, 2019

Evolution

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Darwinism has a range of vulnerabilities, arguably including its assertion of universal common ancestry. Read More ›

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Date
June 12, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Ann Gauger, Bible, BioLogos, C. John Collins, Casey Luskin, Colin Reeves, common design, David Klinghoffer, Denis Lamoureux, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Francis Collins, Günter Bechly, hominid fossils, Homo erectus, Homo naledi, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Lawrence Krauss, Ola Hössjer, pseudogenes, Rick Potts, RNA, Stephen Meyer, teeth, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry}

On Hominid Fossils and Universal Common Ancestry, Denis Lamoureux Distorts

_{Science & Culture
June 12, 2018

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Lamoureux is the theistic evolutionist who left an indelible impression a couple of years ago when he debated Stephen Meyer and atheist Lawrence Krauss. Read More ›