The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

bacteria, bioethics, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire
One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Source
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Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, art, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, Evolution, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Source
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Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, building blocks, Chance and Necessity, chipmunks, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Evolution, Faith & Science, Ferrari, final causality, flowering plants, Ford Mustang, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, immanent power, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Hutchison Stirling, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, perch, pollinators, representational directedness, rodent, Technology, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, Wiliam Dembski, wolf
Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Source
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The Paradox of Biological Reproduction 

Alexander Tsarias, automobiles, BioCosmos, cars, common sense, David Klinghoffer, duplication errors, genetics, grandchildren, information, Intelligent Design, Levinthal paradox, Life Sciences, materialism, mathematics, Model T, molecular biology, natural selection, Plato, Plato's Revenge, replication, reproduction, Richard Sternberg, Timaeus, unintelligent forces
Reproduction poses a difficult paradox for materialistic science despite the fact that we see it happen every day. Source
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How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

Alzheimer’s disease, amino acid, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Life Sciences, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientific reasoning, scientists, variation
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Source
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The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Evolution, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Philosophy of Science, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas
Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Source
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Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Planetology, planets, sun
I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source
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Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, scientific reasoning, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Source
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