24Oct 2024 by Post

“Notions” About Metamorphosis Fall Short of Scientific Explanations

ametabolous, Ann Gauger, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, butterfly, chrysalis, Darwinism, dragonflies, Evolution, foresight, Free University, genes, grasshoppers, hemimetaboly, heuristics, Illustra Media, insects, insectws, Intelligent Design, lice, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Model T, notion, organs, Paul Nelson, phenotypes, Princeton University, proboscis, promissory note, pupa
Saying that a mathematical model “supports the notion” of how metamorphosis evolved should not grace the pages of an esteemed scientific journal. Source
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15Oct 2023 by Post

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

bacon, Belgium, BioEdge, bioethics, Canada, Cornell University, Culture & Ethics, Franklin G. Miller, human life, internal bleeding, kidneys, Lawrence Faucette, Medicine, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, porcine virus, surgery, The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom Beauchamp, vascular disease
A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Source
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19Nov 2021 by Post

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, Evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, Intelligent Design, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, paleontology, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, tissue types, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia
The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Source
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28Dec 2020 by Post

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

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The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Source
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07Oct 2020 by Post

Michael Denton Identifies TWO Intelligent Designs in the Universe

Big Bang, biology, carbon, Chemistry, consciousness, Discovery Institute, fine-tuning, fitness, Francis Bacon, Intelligent Design, life, mankind, medieval synthesis, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, mind, nature, organs, physics, Reconquista, The Fitness of Nature for Mankind, The Miracle of the Cell
“The whole world works together in the service of man,” as Francis Bacon wrote. Denton revives this ancient insight with modern rigor. Source
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