Tag: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 10, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complex structures, evolution, fitness, Germany, ID the Future, intelligent design, living things, Max Planck Institute, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Paul Nelson, podcast, randomness, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 10, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, bamboo, Darwinian theory, dexterity, digits, engineering, giant pandas, GUT, ID the Future, intelligent design, mammals, manipulation systems, microbiome, optimal panda principle, Panda's Thumb, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

3}

Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bamboo, clumsy, engineering, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID the Future, mammals, mechanical systems, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, podcast, radial sesamoid, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplanes, beetles, Brian Josephson, Charles Darwin, consciousness, creativity, David Klinghoffer, degradation, encyclopedias, evolution, intelligent design, James Tour, libraries, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
July 1, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aldovanda, carnivorous plants, carnivory, Charles Darwin, chitinase, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, digestive enzymes, Dionaea, enzymes, evolution, Genlisea, Germany, Heinz-Albert Becker, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, Nepenthes, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, aquatic bladderworts, BioCosmos, Charles Darwin, chemical processes, duplication errors, evolution, Evolution News, Heinz-Albert Becker, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Model T, peer-reviewed literature, replication, self-replicating machines, self-replicators, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

The Other Unsolved Problem of Evolution

_{Granville Sewell
July 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology

5}

"With all our advanced technology, we are not close to producing human-engineered self-replicating machines." Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, DNA, Donald R. Prothero, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, microevolution, mutations, Niles Eldredge, Stephen Jay Gould, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, geneticists, Germany, ID the Future, intelligent design, Köln, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mutations, natural selection, plant galls, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

_{Science and Culture
April 17, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

2}

Charles Darwin was profoundly interested in plant galls, and Darwin himself proposed the challenge these and other forms may pose to his ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Date
June 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, evolution, Gregor Mendel, ID the Future, inheritance, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Listen: Mendel vs. Darwin

_{Science and Culture
June 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

Unfortunately, acceptance of Darwinism hindered acceptance of Gregor Mendel’s great insights. Read More ›