No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

Ann Gauger, atheists, Brian Miller, Brown University, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, citation bluffing, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Debating Design, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Finding Darwin’s God, Francis Collins, Guillermo Gonzalez, Icons of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Nature’s Destiny, No Free Lunch, Oxford University, Oxford University Press, P.Z. Myers, Professor Dave, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Robert Laughlin, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, What Darwin Didn’t Know
One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Source
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Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

al-Khwarizmi, algebra, algorithm, Charles Darwin, Evangelical Christianity, Faith & Science, Grand Unified Theory, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Issac Newton, James Ferguson, Jan Spitzer, Jerry Coyne, Jesus, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Matías Cabello, Michael Behe, Nicolaus Copernicus, religion, revolutionibus, Theory of Everything, Why Evolution Is True
I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Source
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Information Spreads in the Atmospheric Highway

aeromicrobiome, antibacterial resistance, bacteria, biology, cloud aerosols, clouds, Daisuke Tanaka, desiccation, Enceladus, Evolution News, France, Fumito Maruyama, fungi, Hunga-Tonga volcano, information, information storage, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Physics, Earth & Space, Pierre Amato, PLOS ONE, SEA, spores, Titan, Xavier Rodó
Genetic information gets around. In the troposphere — much higher above land than expected — bacteria and fungi hitch a ride to faraway places. Source
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Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, biology, Carl Woese, causation, cell, Chance and Necessity, David Hume, dispositionalism, Evolution News, final cause, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Life Sciences, Michael Behe, organelle, powers ontology, purpose, René Descartes, science of purpose, telos, The Design Inference, Walter Elsasser, William Dembski
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Source
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I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

cell machinery, Center for Science and Culture, chameleons, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, Intelligent Design, kinesins, Long Story Short, media, Michael Behe, microtubules, monkeys, mousetrap, movie producer, newspapers, proteins, replication, Secrets of the Cell, shrimp, Steve Laufmann, turtles, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos
Even as a child, I could sense the scientific rigor and common sense in CSC videos, and I learned to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Source
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Farewell to Daniel Dennett

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent
Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Source
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent
I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Source
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