Evolution News

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 04:31:00 +0200

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State.

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:10:38 +0200

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.

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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:24:05 +0200

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?

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Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:55:00 +0200

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions.

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Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:26:14 +0200

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer?

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Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:53:39 +0200

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.”

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Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:28:00 +0200

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers.

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Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:59:12 +0200

In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.”

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Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause Is "Historical Fiction”

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:57:57 +0200

The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist.

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A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:34:00 +0200

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course.

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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:47:00 +0200

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw.

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Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:07:35 +0200

Scientism claims that science alone dictates the truth, although this system of thought depends on non-scientific reasons to come to such a conclusion.

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Robert J. Mark on AI’s Glaring Errors

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:24:56 +0200

Snapchat’s chatbot “My AI” gave advice about how to hide the smell of pot and alcohol to someone posing as a disgruntled teenager.

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"Pointless Bones”? Nathan Lents Bites at Stuart Burgess’s Ankle

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:35:00 +0200

From an engineering perspective, the bones of the ankle, in their complex and functional artistry, are very far from “pointless.”

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Rescuing Evolutionary Theory from Darwinian Mythology

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:50:46 +0200

Robert Shedinger reports on the contrast between Darwin’s private view of his theory of natural selection and the public view as detailed in his published work.

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A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:01:22 +0200

To see why, we must remember that muscles first appear in the Cambrian explosion.

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Scientific Paper Argues Antarctic Icefish "Designed to Utilize Hemoglobinless Blood”

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:31:00 +0200

“Proponents of intelligent design see customizations to decrease blood viscosity as examples of teleology in biology.”

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Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:16:00 +0200

These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human.

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Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Restoration of Man

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:56:00 +0200

As Michael D. Aeschliman notes, Lewis powerfully illustrated the shortcomings and dangers of scientism in his final Space Trilogy novel.

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Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:25:08 +0200

What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions.

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