07Mar 2025 by Post

Gutsy and Loyal: The Qualities of Our Friend Jonathan Wells

bravery, Center for Science and Culture, courage, developmental biologists, Discovery Institute, Education, Evolution, evolutionary orthodoxy, eyes, friendship, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, loyalty, Paul Nelson, Podcast, poster presentation, science education, University of Chicago, William Dembski
Dr. Paul Nelson begins with an adventure he had with Dr. Wells: a poster presentation on evolution and development at the University of Chicago. Source
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16Jan 2025 by Post

New “Long Story Short” Video Addresses Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders

anger, David Klinghoffer, ENCODE, ENCODE scientists, Endogenous retroviruses, ERVs, Evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, Internet, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, Long Story Short, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, Rob Sheldon, rudeness, science stopper, The Greatest Show on Earth, “selfish gene”
Of course, die-hard evolution defenders were not going to take these major shifts in thinking about “junk DNA” sitting down. Source
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02Jan 2025 by Post

Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

Aleksandr Oparin, Antonia Monteiro, Antonion Lazcano, bacteria, butterflies, Evolution, fitness, genetic mutations, Heliconius, Icons of Evolution, inheritance, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Lepidopterans, mainstream media, materialism, MicroRNAs, moths, peppered moths, RNAs, Science (journal), selection, Stanley L. Miller, University of Singapore, Zombie Science
When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Source
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01Jan 2025 by Post

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

Autonomous University of Madrid, Bill Dembski, C. elegans, Current Science, David Coppedge, Evolution, Gary Ruvkun, gene regulation, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, Karolinska Institutet, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nicholas Robine, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sarnovsky, roundworm, Subhash Lakhotia, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, Victor Ambros
That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Source
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01Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

Brasilodon quadrangularis, convergent evolution, cynodonts, Cynognathus crateronotus, Early Jurassic, Evolution, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, James Rawson, Jonathan Wells, mammalian origins, mammals, middle ear bones, Oligokyphus major, paleontology, Reichert-Gaupp theory, reptiles, Riograndia guaibensis, South America, transitional series, University of Bristol, Zhe-Xi Luo
This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Source
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29Sep 2024 by Post

A First Meeting with Jonathan Wells

biology, cellular biology, Complexity, Evolution, Faith and Science Institute, free speech, Gonzaga University, indoctrination, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, medical school, Richard Sternberg, Robert Spitzer, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Theodosius Dobzhansky, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, University of California
When physicians express doubts about Darwin, we are quickly reminded of that famous remark of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Source
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28Mar 2024 by Post

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

BioEssays, biologists, biology, Carmen Sapienza, Columbia University, DNA, ENCODE, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Forrest Mims, Francis Crick, Genome Biology and Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, John Bodnar, John Mattick, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Human Evolution, Junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Living with Darwin, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), Nature Methods, Oxford University Press, paradigm shift, Philip Kitcher, predictions, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Taylor & Francis, The Greatest Show on Earth, University of Toronto, W. Ford Doolittle, What’s in Your Genome, William Dembski
Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Source
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21Dec 2023 by Post

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

"God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, subject-object metaphysics, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski
It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Source
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11Jul 2023 by Post

Postcard from São Paulo: Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil

Adauto Lourenço, Ann Gauger, atheists, Brazil, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Society for Intelligent Design, Brazilian Society of Intelligent Design, debates, Doubts About Darwin, Douglas Axe, Enézio de Almeida Filho, English, epigenetics, Evolution, fine-tuning, Fomos Planejados, Heleno Hauer, ID Bird, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Juan Manuel Torres, Kelson Mota, Luiz Felipe Pondé, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Philip Johnson, Portuguese, Ricardo Marques, São Paulo, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, teoria do design inteligente, Tom Woodward, William Dembski
The theme of the conference was familiar to us, but I’d like to think that we’ve heard it sung to a new tune in more ways than one.  Source
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13Jun 2023 by Post

Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

antibiotic resistance, biology, cell biology, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, developmental biology, DiscoveryU, Evolution, fossils, genetics, Icons of Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, materialism, molecular biology, natural selection, online course, peppered moths, Podcast, textbooks, whales
How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Source
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