04Nov 2026 by Post

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, history of science, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier
Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Source
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03Nov 2026 by Post

Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size that Evolutions Cannot Explain

ALH84001, Ana Garoña, artificial evolution, astrobiologists, biology, cell division, cell size, college students, cytoplasm, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fitness, genome, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, Jan M. Skotheim, lipids, Mars, meteorite, mutations, nucleic acids, PNAS, Portugal, proteins, senescence, Shicong Xie, Steve Laufmann, Target of Rapamycin, telephone booth, tennis balls, Volkswagen, yeast cells
Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning. Source
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30Oct 2026 by Post

Immanent Agency: It’s Evolution by Design, After All

agency, agency theory, Aristotle, Beyond Mechanism, bioelectricity, Biological Theory, biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, cellular biology, cheetah, chemical stimuli, cognitive biology, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fear, goal-directedness, heart, hunger, immanent design, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, kidney, libido, Little Gidding, living systems, materialistic paradigm, Michael Levin, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Pamela Lyons, Peter A. Corning, prokaryotes, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, T. S. Elliot, thirst
Agency theory as proposed certainly is not "magic," but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework. Source
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30Oct 2026 by Post

In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

Adam Rutherford, African savannah elephant, animal kingdom, BBC, biology, bodies, cell's, Chris Packham, creator, Current Biology, David Coppedge, documentary, DoorDash, elephant trunk, elephants, Epistemology, Evolution, Evolution (TV series), gills, Harvard University, inventor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, lungs, mammals, Mary Droser, methodology, muscular hydrostat, musculature, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Noel Naughton, NOVA PBS, Peter Girguis, phylogenetic analysis, presuppositions, Richard Buggs, UC Riverside, __featured1
The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Source
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27Oct 2026 by Post

Independent Origins of Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum for Evolution

bending, biceps, biology, Biomimetics, brain software, chameleon, Current Biology, elephant, elephant trunk, Engineering, Evolution, hydrostat, Intelligent Design, King Jeroboam, muscles, muscular hydrostat, natural selection, Noel Naughton, octopus, octopus arm, physiology, snake, squid, triceps muscle, unbending
How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution. Source
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21Oct 2026 by Post

In France, Barbarians Set Fire to Civilization; Design and the Designer Are the Targets

Allah, anarchists, artists, barbarians, beauty, biology, chemical elements, Communism, cosmic design, criminals, dessert, Douglas Axe, Eric Metaxas, Europe, Faith & Science, France, humans, ingredients, Intelligent Design, John West, Leninists, Louvre, mass murder, Nazis, Onsi Fakhouri, poets, Poland, political science, qualia, rioters, Rod Dreher, students, T.S. Eliot, V.I. Lenin, Western Civilization, World War II
Says John West, “Students need to know. They don’t understand bad ideas have bad consequences. It’s like playing with fire.” That's no mere figure of speech. Source
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08Oct 2026 by Post

Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass

animals, bacteria, biology, biomineralization, Cambridge University, crystals, fossils, Intelligent Design, iron oxide, Life Sciences, magnetic compass, magnetic induction, magnetite, magnetofossils, magnetoreception, Max Planck Institute, organisms, quantum effects, radical pair theory, salmon, trout
The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Source
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28Sep 2026 by Post

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

Ars Technica, biology, brain, designer, Engineering, Evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science
Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Source
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26Sep 2026 by Post

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, Faith & Science, function, genotype, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism
Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics.  Source
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18Sep 2026 by Post

Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

A Matter of Time, agency, agent theory, Amahury J. Lopez-Diaz, biology, Carlos Gershenson, Denis Walsh, environments, Everything Flows, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, goal, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, means, metaphysics, naturalism, Newtonian physics, objectcy, ontology, repertoire, requirement, science of purpose, scientism, synthetic realization, teleology, thermodynamics, University of Toronto
Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken. Source
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