“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Source
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More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

Abric Pizarro, Annemieke Milks, Australian National University, cave lion, Clive Finlayson, cognitive ability, feathers, Gabriele Russo, Gibraltar, Gibraltar National Museum, glues, Gorham’s Caves Complex, Günter Bechly, Human Origins, Le Moustier, Middle Palaeolithic, missing link, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, New York University, pitches, Radu Iovita, resins, Sofia Samper Carro, Spain, Universität Tübingen, University of Reading, Vanguard Cave
This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Source
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On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

atheists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Conversion, depression, Discovery Institute Press, emotion, Evolution News, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, Feelings, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, Muslims, new york, Richard Dawkins, self-hatred, Somalia, Stephen Meyer, suicide, William Dembski
Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds. Source
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Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

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The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality

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I find this openness and lack of dogmatism uplifting, and an indicator that ID is trying to follow the evidence. Source
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

Ann Gauger, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, cosmology, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Education, environmental fitness, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, intrinsic plausibility, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Danaher, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, motives, Phillip Johnson, prior probability, probability theory, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, teach the controversy, theistic religion, University of Galway, William Dembski
If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Source
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