Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

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Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Source
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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, aurora, aurora australis, aurora borealis, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Faith & Science, Geology, geomagnetic storm, helium, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, Junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, magnetic field lines, magnetic particles, magnetosphere, materialists, neon, nitrogen, northern lights, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, vortex, Wikipedia
You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Source
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

Africa, Alan Feduccia, bird tracks, birds, Darwinists, data, Evolution, evolutionary biology, footprints, Fossil Friday, fossil record, ghost lineages, ichnogenus, Lesotho, paleontology, Paul Ellenberger, PLOS ONE, Poland, Temporal Paradox, theory, theropod dinosaurs, tiktaalik, Trisauropodiscus, University of Cape Town, Upper Triassic, Zachelmie
The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Source
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Source
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

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Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Source
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Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

bacterial flagellar motor, biology, Boston, cell division, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, DNA replication, Evolution, evolutionary biology, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood ratio, materialists, molecular bioscience, Sattler College
Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Source
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Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

A Christmas Carol, A Voice in the Wilderness, academia, African Americans, anti-racism, Atheism, BioLogos, cave rats, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Crustacea, Culture & Ethics, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, history, Human Zoos, J. D. Dana, Jackie Robinson, John West, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Kool-Aid, Louis Agassiz, racial stereotypes, Racism, The Voyage of the Beagle, theistic evolution, Victorian England, Yale University
Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

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The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Source
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Stephen Meyer and Company Answer Questions about Science and Faith

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The conference was jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture and Westminster Theological Seminary. Source
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

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No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Source
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