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David Klinghoffer January 15, 2021 The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.” David Klinghoffer January 14, 2021 Following Denyse O’Leary, I referred earlier to the curious but, on reflection, not surprising messy nature of the “magic” numbers that rule our universe. David Klinghoffer January 14, 2021 If you’ve ever tuned a violin, you’ll know that the arrangement of the fine tuners on the tailpiece, once you’re done, looks arbitrary. David Klinghoffer January 13, 2021 You’ll just have to learn to be patient and find out when I’m ready to tell you. I think it will be worth the wait. David Klinghoffer January 13, 2021 If you’re like me, you are watching current events unfold with a mix of dread and agitation. You are fascinated, can’t take your eyes off it. Evolution News January 13, 2021 They will mock, attack, and ignore intelligent design theory. But evolutionists love using it in their own ways. Cornelius Hunter January 12, 2021 Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right. Evolution News January 12, 2021 Two theorists have created a stir in evolutionary circles, claiming that Darwinian phylogeny efforts (tree-building) cannot be constrained to one “best” answer. David Klinghoffer January 12, 2021 Insofar as we can track evolution as it has happened, e.g. in dog breeds, it consists overwhelming of breaking genes, the degradation of biological information. Evolution News January 11, 2021 When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Evolution News January 10, 2021 Those who choose to join in person will find that we are taking every reasonable precaution to protect our attendees, volunteers, and staff. Jonathan Witt January 9, 2021 Winston Ewert discusses the mathematical foundation for why we know Mount Rushmore is designed in a way that Mount Fuji isn’t. Michael D. Aeschliman January 8, 2021 George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. David Klinghoffer January 7, 2021 Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Tom Winkler January 7, 2021 These two young ladies are representative of many others who are desperately seeking our message of purpose and hope. Michael D. Aeschliman January 7, 2021 Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Jonathan Witt January 6, 2021 Evolutionists say malaria’s ability to evolve resistance to the antimalarial drug chloroquine is powerful evidence of unguided microbe-to-man evolution. Michael D. Aeschliman January 6, 2021 Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages. Wesley J. Smith January 5, 2021 Declaring a “climate emergency” would open the door to rule by diktat over environmental policy. You can envision the authoritarian possibilities. David Klinghoffer January 5, 2021 This Thursday, January 7, in a live presentation at 1 pm Pacific time, they ask, “Is Intelligent Design Defensible?” David Klinghoffer January 5, 2021 Says our colleague Professor Flannery, “I have little doubt that if Wallace were alive today he would be an ID theorist of the first order.” Jonathan Witt January 5, 2021 Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion. Evolution News January 5, 2021 An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. John G. West January 4, 2021 Needless to say, this proposal is not grounded in science, which is supposed to prize open debate and scrutiny, not censorship. Evolution News January 4, 2021 One of the greatest naturalists of the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) co-discovered evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. Jonathan Witt January 3, 2021 In an earlier book, Behe reviewed data from evolution studies of malaria parasites, HIV, and E. coli, and showed that evolutionary processes face severe limits. Evolution News January 2, 2021 Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Evolution News January 1, 2021 What if major technology companies shy from censorship? Then the government should take aggressive action: “Make them.” Günter Bechly December 31, 2020 None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Brian Miller December 30, 2020 Clearly, the questions he and I have discussed are not only of scientific or academic interest, but instead go to the root of life’s meaning and purpose. Michael Behe December 29, 2020 The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Jonathan Wells December 28, 2020 The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. John G. West December 27, 2020 Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” David Klinghoffer December 26, 2020 Books by Behe, and other ID theorists doing an independent of audit of evolutionary thinking, find devastating faults in the theory. Kelley J. Unger December 25, 2020 "Methodological naturalism is a very depressing thing to be told is the truth," says an 18-year-old correspondent. "Your work may have saved my life." Michael Egnor December 25, 2020 Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Ann Gauger December 24, 2020 I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Evolution News December 23, 2020 Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Michael Flannery December 23, 2020 It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. David Klinghoffer December 22, 2020 As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. David Klinghoffer December 22, 2020 It’s become suffocating on the surface, so truth seeks shelter. The experience of being canceled is no longer limited to speakers on college campuses. Jonathan Witt December 22, 2020 According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Evolution News December 21, 2020 New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Wesley J. Smith December 20, 2020 A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Evolution News December 19, 2020 An example of this devolutionary process on a showy scale? Flightless island birds, devolved from birds that could fly. David Klinghoffer December 18, 2020 Once again, Darwinists seek to avoid an argument by using clever talk, giving the false impression of a scientist, Behe, who brushes away challenges. Jonathan Witt December 18, 2020 They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Michael Behe December 18, 2020 Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. David Klinghoffer December 17, 2020 Douglas Ell's concept is a dialogue between Doubt and Reason, who sass each other merrily. John G. West December 17, 2020 COVID-19 isn’t our only pandemic. There is also a pandemic of loneliness and despair. John G. West December 17, 2020 Walter Bradley may not be a household name, but in a fair world he would be. He has changed many lives, and the world is a much better place because of him. Jonathan Witt December 16, 2020 The conversation turns to the challenge and necessity of quickly evolving error-correction mechanisms in origin-of-life scenarios. Wesley J. Smith December 16, 2020 The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports. Evolution News December 16, 2020 DeepMind, the AI company that beat human Go gamers with AlphaGo, has made progress in solving the protein folding problem. But who deserves the credit? David Klinghoffer December 15, 2020 Conceding that churches and synagogues aren’t “essential businesses” was a devastating admission for many professional religious leaders to make. Michael Egnor December 15, 2020 My friend and colleague Bill Dembski, a leading advocate of intelligent design of the universe and life forms, has done a superb short interview. Evolution News December 15, 2020 Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Jonathan Witt December 14, 2020 Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more. Wolf-Ekkehard L_nnig December 14, 2020 In my new contribution, I restrict myself to important facets of the historical side of plant gall research. Jonathan Wells December 14, 2020 Children with gender dysphoria need help. But transgender treatments for them are not based on good evidence. Jonathan Witt December 13, 2020 The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Jonathan Witt December 12, 2020 The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Jonathan Witt December 11, 2020 Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate. Michael Egnor December 11, 2020 Yale's Steven Novella has been trying to sell his materialist ideology in the guise of neuroscience for more than a decade. Jonathan Wells December 11, 2020 In recent years, there has been increased interest in a possible connection between gender dysphoria and autism. Michael Behe December 10, 2020 Let me tell a little story about blood clotting, Russell Doolittle, and Michael Ruse. David Klinghoffer December 10, 2020 They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more. Jonathan Wells December 10, 2020 For children with gender dysphoria, blocking puberty is not just buying time. It is more like a point of no return. Jonathan Witt December 9, 2020 Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function. Brian Miller December 9, 2020 If I had written this book, I would have concluded with a final chapter that began with a verse from the book of Genesis. Jonathan Wells December 9, 2020 The pituitary gland produces hormones that stimulate the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys. David Klinghoffer December 8, 2020 "Over the years Behe has received a mountain of criticism, all of which has been answered by him in letters to the editors of journals, newspapers, and blogs." Brian Miller December 8, 2020 England begins by describing how his book interweaves the discussion of the science of life with his Orthodox Jewish faith. Jonathan Wells December 8, 2020 So he chose to call himself David, after the Old Testament king who slew Goliath. Evolution News December 7, 2020 If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. David Klinghoffer December 7, 2020 For the University of Chicago to turn its back on free speech would be like a Christian college turning its back on Christianity. It couldn’t happen. Jonathan Wells December 7, 2020 "We both wanted to play with guys, build forts and have snowball fights and play army… She played with my toys: Tinkertoys, dump trucks." Michael Behe December 6, 2020 Unlike philosophy journals — or high school newspapers — many science journals are unwilling to publish responses by people attacked in their pages. Evolution News December 5, 2020 Wesley Smith explains why we need to take the threat of the anti-humanism movement seriously. David Klinghoffer December 4, 2020 Says biologist Raymond Bohlin, the book is a "gift to anyone passionately interested in biological origins and the debate over Darwinism and design." Jonathan Wells December 4, 2020 Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. David Klinghoffer December 4, 2020 Dr. Tour wants to know: "This is the origin of life. How did that first living system form?" David Klinghoffer December 3, 2020 There’s no better tribute to the power of ideas than a changed mind. Erik Strandness is a physician in Spokane, WA, practicing neonatal medicine. Evolution News December 3, 2020 Evolution’s proper place of study has moved from gross anatomy and population genetics to biochemistry. Michael Behe December 3, 2020 Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.” David Klinghoffer December 2, 2020 If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive. David Klinghoffer December 2, 2020 If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.” Evolution News December 2, 2020 Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Evolution News December 1, 2020 German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience. Amanda Witt December 1, 2020 For our biochemistry geeks, one mug contains both the periodic table of elements and a DNA-amino acids codon wheel. Paul Nelson December 1, 2020 Shhh — don’t say it. The geological event, well, not “event,” as in something that happened about 541 million years ago...we don’t talk that way anymore. Evolution News December 1, 2020 Breakthroughs in imaging are allowing scientists to see iconic molecular machines in unprecedented detail. This will be a great boon for design science. David Klinghoffer November 30, 2020 To say that a writer "opened your eyes," and to something as profound as the design of life, is a fantastic tribute. Paul Nelson November 30, 2020 I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Wolf-Ekkehard L_nnig November 30, 2020 Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Wesley J. Smith November 29, 2020 Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Evolution News November 28, 2020 The Lehigh University biochemist addresses misconceptions about irreducible complexity, and responds to the claim that “molecular machines” is a misnomer. Amanda Witt November 27, 2020 One nice thing about Zazzle’s platform is that for each design, the customer can choose a size and difficulty level. David Klinghoffer November 26, 2020 COVID restrictions may have put a damper on the traditional Thanksgiving celebration. But even lockdowns can't stop us from giving thanks. Paul Nelson November 25, 2020 Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. More news from Evolution.News
