25Jul 2024 by Post

On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

biology, Caltech, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, Developmental Biology (journal), developmental gene regulatory networks, dialogue, Dlx gene, Eörs Szathmáry, epigenetic information, Eric Davidson, evo-devo, Evolution, Evolution News, genes, Hox genes, Intelligent Design, kernels, phenotype, Stephen Meyer, subcircuits, The Joe Rogan Experience, transmutation
Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Source
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15Jul 2024 by Post

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

adaptation, catastrophe, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dan Brooks, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, doomsday, Evolution, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, Human Extinction Movement, IIsac Asimov, MIT, persecution, Peter Watts, Salvatore J. Agosta, The Darwinian Survival Guide, The Freeze-Frame Revolution, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto
Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Source
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14Jun 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, biology, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, Evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday, genomes, Intelligent Design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Montsechia vidalii, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Source
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12Jun 2024 by Post

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

André Ariew, Burger King, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, Hugh Desmond, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, Liliana M. Dávalos, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Philippe Huneman, Quarterly Review of Biology, Thomas Reydon, Yoda complex
Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Source
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11Jun 2024 by Post

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

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A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Source
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30May 2024 by Post

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

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American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Source
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29May 2024 by Post

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps 

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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Source
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11May 2024 by Post

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

apes, Caesar, Charles Darwin, chimps, civilization, Culture, Culture & Ethics, eagles, Evolution, films, franchise, Human Origins, humans, intelligence, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, knowledge, movies, observatory, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Owen Teague, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, virus
“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Source
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