Tag: University of Chicago

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, Annaka Harris, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biochemists, caterpillar, cats, cells, cocooning, cognition, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, consciousness, Dogs, dying, environments, Epoch Times, evolution, glutamate, hierarchy, horses, human nervous system, iai.tv, James Shapiro, leaves, Makai Elías Calles, mating, natural selection, neurons, neurotransmitters, octopus, plant consciousness, plants, self-awareness, stripping fruit trees, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago}

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›

A cheetah in full pursuit of a gazelle across the African savanna during a dust-filled chase at golden hour

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, cosmology, Darwin's Black Box, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, goal-directedness, intelligent design, James Shapiro, John West, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, MIT Press, molecular biology, Natural Sciences, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian paradigm, next generation, Oxford University, paleontology, physics, researchers, scientific evidence, Seattle Pacific University, Stephen Meyer, Taking Stock at 30 (series), teleology, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin’s Black Box., Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, type 3 secretory system, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis}

Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 2, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, American Geophysical Union, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, bioRxiv, Casey Luskin, Charles Thaxton, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box:, evolution, George Gilder, Günter Bechly, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Isaac Newton, James A. Shapiro, John West, Michael Behe, microbiologists, National Review, nonfiction books, Onsi Fakhouri, paleontologists, quantum theory, Robert Sheldon, space plasma physics, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Time Magazine, University of Alabama, University of Chicago, Voldemort, Your Amazing Body}

Mighty Darwin Has Struck Out: Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Klinghoffer
August 2, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Most iconically of all, Behe gave us there the irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum. Right away, the flagellum hit the fan. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, americans, apes, apotheosis, Carl Becker, Charles Darwin, Charles Merriam, Columbia University, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, education, endowed by our creator, environment, evolutionary racism, Founders, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, government, gravitation, Great Society, humanity, income, John Burgess, limited government, medical care, natural law, nature, Nature and Nature’s God, New Deal, New Jersey, New York City, Princeton University, progressives, Teutonic race, U.S. Constitution, United States, University of Chicago, Woodrow Wilson}

The Denial of Limited Government in the Name of Science

_{John G. West
March 23, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

7}

Charles Darwin was honored for showing that the truths preached by the political philosophers had been substantiated by biological science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, evolution, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, macroevolution, microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists}

Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
March 13, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, A Nation at Risk, abstraction, Alex Thomas, American Mathematical Society, Beatles, Bolivia, calculus, Chicago, Claremont Graduate University, compassion, competence, courage, CRISPR, Critical Mathematics Pedagogy, Defying Low Expectations, designer babies, discipline, East Los Angeles, education, Edward James Olmos, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, Gale Pooley, Garfield High School, George Martin, Henry Gradillas, Hispanics, inference, information, Inkwell Press, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligent design, Jaime Escalante, Jay Mathews, Jerry Jesness, Kappan Magazine, Lewis Terman, Los Angeles, Mary Poplin, mathematics, modeling, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, probability, Programme for International Student Assessment, reasoning, Roland Fryer, search space, Stand and Deliver, standards, test scores, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, William James}

Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
February 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Education

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Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complex biological features, Denis Noble, epigenetic change, evo-devo, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Lamarckian theory, macroevolution, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, niche construction, On the Origin of Species, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

Third Way Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

_{Casey Luskin
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Things were peachy until the late 20th/early 21st century, when some biologists began to acknowledge that neo-Darwinism had a glaring explanatory deficit. 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, natural selection, nature, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Chicago}

“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 ›

Magic imaginary world full with color and happiness. Generative ai.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, evidence, evolutionary biology, fundamentalism, gravity, human origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, Scopes Monkey Trial, subjectivism, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan}

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

4}

Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Read More ›