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15Nov 2022 by Post

Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

AlphaFold, alternative genetic codes, biology, Brian Miller, convergent evolution, devolution, discoveries, DNA, Douglas Axe, ENCODE, encoding, Endogenous retroviruses, epigenetics, Evolution, Evolution News, frameshifting, genes, genetics, genomes, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral evolution, Paul Nelson, predictions, protein folding, protein rarity, RNAs, Scott Minnich, supercoiling, topoisomerase

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Source

14Nov 2022 by Post

Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

alpha-proteobacterium, bacteriophage, BioEssays, Biological Reviews, biology, cellular life, censorship, cytoplasm, Dave Speijer, domain, endosymbiotic hypothesis, eukarya, eukaryogenesis, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, free speech, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Linnaean taxonomy, mitochondria, nucleic acid, protein, replicon, viruses

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Source

12Nov 2022 by Post

Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

Cambridge University Press, cheating, chess, Culture & Ethics, design detection, Eric Anderson, Hans Moke Niemann, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Magnus Carlsen, mathematicians, Podcast, smoking gun, The Design Inference, William Dembski

At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph. Source

11Nov 2022 by Post

Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature

biology, Dan Nilsson, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, eye, Joe Thornton, just-so stories, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, protein science, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, science, vertebrate eye, Visual Neuroscience, YouTube videos

The formula goes like this: 1. Evolution is true. 2. Here’s how it must have happened. 3. Look, yet more proof of evolution. Source

10Nov 2022 by Post

There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

biology, common descent, convergence, debates, directed mutations, Erik Svensson, Evolution, evolutionists, gradualism, just-so stories, lineage-specific biology, Lund University, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, naturalism, random causes, rapid divergence, saltationism, science, textbooks, The Conversation

What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Source

09Nov 2022 by Post

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

"survival of the fittest", Alvar Ellegard, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Ebenezer Scrooge, evolutionary processes, Faith & Science, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, Origin of Species, philosophy, poetry, Robert Ryan, Samuel Butler, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth

Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Source

08Nov 2022 by Post

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, Medicine, memory retrieval, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Source

07Nov 2022 by Post

Jesus is Our Lord, Not Our Mascot.

Apologetics, Christianity, Cross, Jesus, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Melissa Dougherty, postmodernism, Theology and Christian Apologetics

By Melissa Dougherty Some churches and people make Jesus a mascot. I’m sure a few people reading this might be scratching their heads, wondering what I mean by this. Others know exactly what I mean. Here in America, sometimes I think we take for granted that we don’t have to “hurt” to follow Jesus. What I mean by that is that we avoid any sort of struggle to obtain most of our Christian virtues. In other words, we’re too comfortable. We own a Bible and go to church and don’t get tortured for it. We praise God in our cars, listening to worship music with the windows down without fear of being imprisoned. Yes, I think we take this for granted. We make Jesus a symbol of our good decisions…

06Nov 2022 by Post