Tag: universal common descent

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academia, Casey Luskin, deadline, DNA, education, evolution, Garden of the Gods, geologists, graduate students, intelligent design, National Natural Landmark, protein evolution, researchers, rock formations, scholars, sciences, scientocracy, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teaching, truth, undergraduates, universal common descent, worldview, writing}

The CSC Summer Seminars: Once in a Lifetime, All Expenses Paid

_{Kate Kavanaugh
March 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Listening to scholars from various disciplines, and surrounded by the breathtaking scenery, I was awestruck by the truth and beauty of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, birds, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Darwin’s God, evolution, fish, Galápagos Islands, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, oceanic islands, On the Origin of Species, progressive creationism, seed dispersal, species, theology, universal common descent}

Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

_{Robert Shedinger
February 20, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A book widely hailed as proposing a true mechanism for evolution actually reads more like an anti-creationist polemic. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Benjamin Wiker, Christianity, Church Fathers, creation, defining id, designer, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Franciscan University, God's Grandeur, intellectuals, intelligent cause, intelligent design, interventionism, James Sinclair, Jonathan Witt, Logan Gage, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural laws, Reductionism, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, scientists, Scripture, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common descent, universe, William Lane Craig}

Here Is What We Mean by Intelligent Design (And What We Don’t)

_{Ann Gauger
April 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Some ID supporters agree with universal common descent, but many ID supporters argue against the idea that all life shares a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, David Coppedge, evolution, Evolution News, genes, hybridization, intelligent design, origins, sex, species, Star Trek, Starships, Stephen Barr, symmetry, universal common descent}

Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

_{Rob Sheldon
April 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Adam Frank, Arthropoda, Biogenetic Law, biosphere, Chordata, eukaryotes, evolution, intelligent life, Jacques Monod, life, monophyly, probability, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference, Tree of Life, universal common descent, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

_{Paul Nelson
March 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, eukaryotic cells, evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, paradigm shift, prokaryotic cells, superorganism, universal common descent}

More Turbulence at the Base of the Tree of Life

_{Evolution News
June 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For a theory whose empirical strength is so great that it cannot be doubted, universal common descent certainly is doubted a lot. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, camera eye, Casey Luskin, common descent, common design, convergence, Emily Reeves, evolutionists, Harvest House, humans, ID the Future, monkeys, octopuses, podcast, rafting monkeys, Renaissance, solar system, South America, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, universal common descent}

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›

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Date
November 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, animals, Cyanobacteria, evolution, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, metazoans, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Tree of Life, universal common descent}

Case Study Inadvertently Shows Why Universal Common Descent Is Untestable

_{Evolution News
November 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Sooner or later, onlookers will realize that UCD is actually bankrupt. UCD doesn’t pay its bills, because it can’t. Read More ›

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Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academic freedom, Adam and Eve, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christians, Cornelius Hunter, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, faith, fossil record, genetic engineering, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, human origins, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Tour, Jay Richards, John Bloom, John West, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Keas, panspermia, Paul Nelson, Rice University, Robert J. Marks II, Stephen Meyer, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Privileged Planet, theology, universal common descent, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

New Book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Answers Key Questions on Intelligent Design

_{Evolution News
October 5, 2021

Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"If anyone thinks that the study of science and faith should be disparate disciplines, here are more than 656 reasons why they’re wrong." Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biologists, contingency, Dave Speijer, evolutionary theory, manure, Popperian falsification, predictions, puppy, rooster, Stephen Jay Gould, theory, universal common descent}

“Is Popperian Falsification Useful in Biology?”

_{Paul Nelson
February 11, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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A theory that “tolerates exceptions” is doing no work at all, simply wandering along behind the data like a puppy on a leash. Read More ›