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15Jan 2024 by Post

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Source

24Dec 2023 by Post

No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

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Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Source

01Oct 2023 by Post

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Source

20Aug 2023 by Post

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

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The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source

03Aug 2023 by Post

On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

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Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London. Source

30Jun 2023 by Post

On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

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Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Source

09Apr 2023 by Post

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Source

31Mar 2023 by Post

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source

24Sep 2022 by Post

Listen: Darwin Returns from the Future

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Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the 21st century. Source

20May 2022 by Post

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Source

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