Evolution News

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:42:23 +0200

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.

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Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:43:00 +0200

Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.”

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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:39:00 +0200

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics.

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Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:04:16 +0200

No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.”

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A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 01:13:16 +0200

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making.

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Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten "Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:23:00 +0200

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA.

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Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:11:00 +0200

Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.”

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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:44:00 +0200

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away.

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What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:42:00 +0200

Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice.

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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:56:00 +0200

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology.

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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:32:43 +0200

This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science.

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The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:36:00 +0200

Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered?

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Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:09:00 +0200

One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point.

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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:56:49 +0200

As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against.

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Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:26:22 +0200

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life.

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Newly Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian "Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:44:00 +0200

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.”

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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:31:00 +0200

Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology.

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Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:11:07 +0200

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe.

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Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:09:44 +0200

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source.

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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:45:39 +0200

If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first.

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