Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, Macroevolution, Microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists
Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Source
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Year in Review: Demonstrating the Power of the Intelligent Design Framework in Biology

anatomy, biologists, biology, biomimicry, blood flow, brain, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design reuse, Emily Reeves, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, engineers, genetic profiles, genetic variation, genome architecture, Gerald Fudge, glycolysis, Intelligent Design, James Clayton Prize, James Johansen, living systems, Macroevolution, Michael Egnor, Microevolution, modularity, optimality, pathology, physicians, physiology, Research, robustness, Stuart Burgess, systems engineering, Texas A&M, theory of biological design, Windkessel
Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Source
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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
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Natural Selection

Artificial Selection, Bernard Kettlewell, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hugo de Vries, industrial melanism, Life Sciences, Macroevolution, Microevolution, mutations, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, peppered moths, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Theodosius Dobzhansky
When the drought ended and the rains returned, however, food was plentiful, and the average beak size returned to normal. Source
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The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

biology, Bob Richards, creationists, Evolution, Frank Lewis Marsh, Genetics and the Origin of Species, history of science, Macroevolution, Mark B. Adams, Microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, Richard Delisle, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky, United States, University of Chicago, University of Lethbridge, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, William C. Wimsatt, Yuri Filipchenko
The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Source
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Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

alleles, animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cotton, Darwinian theory, ecosystems, Evolution, foresight, fossil record, John Rust, Macroevolution, materialism, molecular machines, Monopoly, natural selection, Owen M. Gilbert, oxygen, pseudoscience, Rethinking Ecology, selection pressure, teleology, The Origin of Species, Thomas Malthus, University of Texas
An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Source
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#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic engineers, Ignác Semmelweis, Intelligent Design, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, living cell, Macroevolution, Medicine, MERS-CoV, Michael Dini, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, molecular biology, mutation, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, smallpox, species, The Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, virus, World Health Organization, Wuhan
The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Source
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