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17Dec 2025 by Post

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

bacteria, bacterial flagellum, blood clots, Bradley Monton, Darwin's Black Box, David Berlinski, dualism, Education, Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Laurence Moran, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education, peer-reviewed publications, puffer fish, scientific reasoning, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, Tyler Hampton, University of Kentucky, William Dembski, word salad

Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Source

12Dec 2025 by Post

All the Evidence Points to Design, but the Credit Goes to…You Know What

cell division, ChatGPT, chromosomes, cognates, common ancestry, cytoplasm, embezzler, Evolution, fulcrum, Intelligent Design, mitotic regulators, prison, serial number, William Dembski

One of the most objectionable aspects of modern evolutionary theory was the undeserved, unearned credit it steals. Source

12Dec 2025 by Post

Scopes in Reverse: A History of Evolution Education in U.S. Public Schools

American Civil Liberties Union, Antonin Scalia, Ball State University, Clarence Darrow, Council of Europe, Dayton, Discovery Institute, DNA, Epperson v. Arkansas, eric hedin, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, fossil record, freedom from religion foundation, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Legal Science (jurisprudence), monkey law, public schools, Richard Sternberg, science education, Scientific Freedom, Scopes v. State, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Jay Gould, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Texas, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, University of Idaho, William Jennings Bryan

Undoubtedly there will be more court cases and curriculum battles in the future over how to teach evolution. Source

11Dec 2025 by Post

Third Way Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

complex biological features, Denis Noble, epigenetic change, evo-devo, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian theory, Macroevolution, Microevolution, Modern Synthesis, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, niche construction, On the Origin of Species, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago

Things were peachy until the late 20th/early 21st century, when some biologists began to acknowledge that neo-Darwinism had a glaring explanatory deficit. Source

10Dec 2025 by Post

The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

animals, Ascaris megalocephala, bar code, Cenorhabditis elegans, Chemistry, chimpanzees, chromosome number, chromosomes, Cruciferae, DNA, donkeys, Drosophila, Evolution, ferns, fruit flies, genes, genetics, homunculus, humans, idiogram, Junk DNA, Lego blocks, Ninth Symphony, nucleotides, Ophioglossum petiolatum, Parthenon, physics, plants, proteins, roundworm, Salvador Dalì, wheat, zebras

Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Source

05Dec 2025 by Post

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, beeswax, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, classification, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, Engineering, Evolution, False Messiah, function, functional needs, German Research Foundation, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, Intelligent Design, Jana Ciecierska-Holmes, Linnaean taxonomy, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, PNAS Nexus, reptiles, scales, sunflowers, tessellated patterns, tessellation, tile shapes, tiles, tortoise shell

Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Source

27Nov 2025 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

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One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Source

25Nov 2025 by Post

Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

Alan of, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bernard Silvestris, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, cosmology, Darwinism, Edward Pusey, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, historical sciences, Jane Eyre, Jean de Meun, Lamarckism, maternal figure, Mother Nature, Natura, Natura creatrix, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Physis, Queens of the Wild, Robert J. Richards, Romance of the Rose, Ronald Hutton, teleology, world spirit

The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Source

21Nov 2025 by Post