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20Nov 2022 by Post

Evolution of Human Consciousness Solved! — Yet Again

animals, apes, biology, cats, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Human Origins, Irreducible Complexity, Martin Luther King Jr., mice, minimal consciousness, Mother Teresa, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology Today, Simona Ginsburg, University of Toronto, unlimited associative learning

What does the term “evolution” contribute to the discussion of the origin of human consciousness? Source

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19Nov 2022 by Post

Still a Mystery: Charles Thaxton on Life’s Origin

biology, Brian Miller, Charles Thaxton, Chemistry, Evolution, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James Tour, origin of life, Podcast, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin

It was the epilogue that proved controversial. There the three authors reviewed five proposed explanations for life’s origins. Source

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18Nov 2022 by Post

The Biggest Obstacle to Accepting Intelligent Design

Big Media, Big Tech, Casey Luskin, censorship, coercion, COVID-19, debate, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution News, faith, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, journalism, Richard Weikart, science, search engines, Spanish, Stephen Meyer

Unfortunately, big media and big tech work overtime to suppress dissent in science. Source

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16Nov 2022 by Post

Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

atheists, bacteria, Evolution, Hotel California, Intelligent Design, Jews, La-Z-Boy, Long Term Evolution Experiment, marijuana, Michael Behe, polar bears, Professor Dave, Richard Lenski, TJump, YouTube videos, YouTubers

As Behe and TJump discuss Lenski’s experiment, polar bears, and other matters, the commenters are floating in their own strange parallel reality. Source

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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