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23Aug 2021 by Post

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

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A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Source

19Aug 2021 by Post

In Darwin, the Descent of a PR Man

apes, brain, Charles Darwin, David Cameron, emperor’s new clothes, Evolution, Great Britain, humans, Prime Minister, The Descent of Man

Darwin's reiteration here and elsewhere of the phrase “we may confidently believe” veils the tenuous truth-value of what he proposes. Source

18Aug 2021 by Post

In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem

The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source

17Aug 2021 by Post

Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers

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In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Source

14Aug 2021 by Post

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, Evolution, Fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, origin of life, re-animation, Skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin

Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Source

09Aug 2021 by Post

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

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The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Source

05Aug 2021 by Post

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

Anaximande, Anaximenes, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, Creation, daemons, David Hume, De Rerum Natura, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, dryads, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Evolution, Fates, genii, George Strodach, Greek gods, harpies, Intelligent Design, Iphigenia, Jesuit Pierre Gassendi, King Agamemnon, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Poggio Braccioloni, Romans, satyrs, Stephen Greenblatt, The Art of Happiness, Thomas Creech

The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Source

03Aug 2021 by Post