26Mar 2021 by Post

What’s Wrong with Calling Intelligent Design “Anti-Evolution”?

Annual Review of Anthropology, anti-evolution, anti-science, Arkansas, common ancestor, creationism, dialogue, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Intelligent Design, National Center for Science Education, natural selection, organisms, Paul Nelson, rhetoric, Stanley Weinberg, The American Biology Teacher
The term “anti-evolution” has been used for decades, over and over, by untold numbers of defenders of Darwin and critics of the theory of intelligent design. Source
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03Mar 2021 by Post

Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

Artificial Intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, computers, Darwinism, designers, Edinburgh Napier University, Emma Hart, Evolution, Fantasia, humans, ID The Future, Michael Behe, natural selection, oversight, Robert J. Marks, robots, Technology, That Hideous Strength, The Conversation, The Magician’s Twin, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Walter Bradley Center
To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Source
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16Feb 2021 by Post

Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis

adaptation, Andrew Murray, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, Evolution, function, gene loss, genes, Intelligent Design, John Maynard Smith, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nature Heredity, phenotypes, The Quarterly Review of Biology
The literature is looking at the same data that intelligent design proponents are looking at, making similar observations, and asking similar questions. Source
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03Feb 2021 by Post

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

consciousness, cosmology, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, Evolution, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Francis Collins, geneticists, mathematics, methodological naturalism, natural selection, origin of life, particle physics, Philip Davies, population genetics, Richard Goldschmidt, Richard Lewontin, The Goldilocks Enigma, The Language of God, universe
Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Source
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26Jan 2021 by Post

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

academia, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, critical theory, Culture & Ethics, Economics, Evolution, Friedrich Engels, intersectionality, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lucifer, Marxism, Michael Egnor, microaggressions, natural selection, Paradise Lost, power, public square, Saul Alinsky, Walter Bradley Center
"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Source
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05Jan 2021 by Post

Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

alleles, animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cotton, Darwinian theory, ecosystems, Evolution, foresight, fossil record, John Rust, Macroevolution, materialism, molecular machines, Monopoly, natural selection, Owen M. Gilbert, oxygen, pseudoscience, Rethinking Ecology, selection pressure, teleology, The Origin of Species, Thomas Malthus, University of Texas
An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Source
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28Dec 2020 by Post

#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic engineers, Ignác Semmelweis, Intelligent Design, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, living cell, Macroevolution, Medicine, MERS-CoV, Michael Dini, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, molecular biology, mutation, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, smallpox, species, The Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, virus, World Health Organization, Wuhan
The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Source
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