25Feb 2021 by Post

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

American Journal of Botany, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, common descent, Cretaceous Period, Eric Anderson, Evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jurassic, Life Sciences, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Podcast, Richard Buggs
A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Source
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24Feb 2021 by Post

Subduction and the “Mechanism” of Intelligent Design

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Archean Eon, crustal material, diapirs, early Earth, geologists, Geology, inference to design, Intelligent Design, lithosphere, mechanism, mélange rocks, nature, Nature Communications, Neoproterozoic Era, plate tectonics, subduction, subduction zones
We can see plenty of evidence that intelligent design in nature is real, but it’s not always clear exactly how that design is instantiated in nature. Source
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23Feb 2021 by Post

What Subduction Teaches About Intelligent Design

carbon, chalk, continental crust, erosion, Great Oxidation Event, Intelligent Design, limestone, mantle, Michael Denton, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, nitrogen, oceanic crust, oceanic sediments, phosphorous, plate tectonics, scientific papers, solar system, subduction, sulfur, The Wonder of Water, volcanos
My PhD research was on the early plate tectonic history on earth. Plate tectonics involves the movement of plates on the surface of the earth. Source
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16Feb 2021 by Post

Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis

adaptation, Andrew Murray, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, Evolution, function, gene loss, genes, Intelligent Design, John Maynard Smith, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nature Heredity, phenotypes, The Quarterly Review of Biology
The literature is looking at the same data that intelligent design proponents are looking at, making similar observations, and asking similar questions. Source
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13Feb 2021 by Post

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

African Americans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, Darwinists, eugenics, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Galton, ID The Future, indigenous races, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Martin Luther King Jr., materialism, scientific racism, sterilization, theology, Victorian England
Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Source
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08Feb 2021 by Post

William Dembski on ID, Church Fathers, and a Problem for Atheists

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Faith & Science, How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not), ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, origin of life, PhD, Podcast, Sean McDowell, The Patristic Understanding of Creation, Understanding Intelligent Design, University of Johannesburg, William Dembski
Let's celebrate the return of Casey Luskin and William Dembski to the intelligent design sphere. Source
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