06Nov 2024 by Post

Remembering Michael Ruse

Arkansas, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Dallas, Darwinism, David Hull, Debating Design, Evolution, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Intelligent Design, John Dominic Crossan, Jon Buell, Michael Ruse, N. T. Wright, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Subboor Ahmad, The End of Faith, The God Delusion, The Root of All Evil?
Paradoxically, he was ardent in his Darwinism, mild in his atheism, and fair-minded to intelligent design. Source
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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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27Sep 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

crest, Darren Naish, Darwinism, David Unwin, England, Evolution, flying reptiles, Fossil Friday (series), fossil recod, Intelligent Design, Kallokibotion bajadiz, Mark Norell, Mark Witten, misidentifications, neo-Darwinian evolution, Nicholas Fraser, paleontology, pseudoscience, pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchoidea, Romania, Stephen Brusatte, Thalassodromeus sethi, Thalassodromus sebesensis, Transylvania, Triassic period, vampires
Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Source
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02Sep 2024 by Post

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

beetroots, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution theory, Darwinism, Douglas Youvan, eliminationism, Energy, Evolution, Galen Strawson, illusion, matter, natural selection, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Physics, Earth & Space, psychology, random mutation, snakes, spiritual particle, universe
It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Source
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09Aug 2024 by Post

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Culture & Ethics, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Medicine, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith
"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." 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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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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