Jonathan Wells

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A.N. Wilson Is Right: “Darwin Was Wrong”

_{Jonathan Wells
February 2, 2018}

I enjoyed Wilson's book, and I learned a lot from it. But this biography’s most interesting feature is its firm rejection of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Intelligent Design Is Flourishing in Brazil

_{Jonathan Wells
December 7, 2017}

My wife Lucy and I just returned from Brazil, the world’s fifth largest and sixth most populous country.

Must Life Evolve?

_{William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells
July 27, 2017}

In redefining life to make its origin easier to explain, origin-of-life researchers are now increasingly emphasizing the ability of life to evolve.

Explaining Human Mathematical Ability — Three Evolutionary Hypotheses

_{William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells
July 6, 2017}

Humans have many unique cognitive abilities apart from language.

Logicblind — Reviewing Andrew Shtulman

_{Jonathan Wells
June 8, 2017}

Schtulman’s recent book, Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong, is filled with confusions.

Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected

_{Jonathan Wells
May 18, 2017}

In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”

The Truth about Soviet Science and Darwinian Evolution Isn’t as Darwinists Would Like Us to Believe

_{Jonathan Wells
February 10, 2017}

As often happens, Darwinists have things exactly upside-down.

American Lysenkoism

_{Jonathan Wells
November 22, 2016}

Darwinists have compared intelligent design to Lysenkoism, but they have it backward.

From Joshua Swamidass, a Gratuitous Drive-by Hit

_{Jonathan Wells
September 22, 2016}

Swamidass and BioLogos profess a commitment to "gracious dialogue."

Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back

_{Jonathan Wells
June 3, 2016}

Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths.

Can Evolutionary Theory Be Taken Seriously?

_{Jonathan Wells
May 31, 2016}

Stephen L. Talbott asks why the public is still so skeptical of evolution.

Darwin’s Finches: The Hype Continues

_{Jonathan Wells
April 22, 2016}

Every few years we are treated to glowing news stories about how Darwin's iconic finches are still evolving that, as usual, are full of hype.

The Onion Test Is a Red Herring

_{Jonathan Wells
March 11, 2015}

Why onion cells have five times as much DNA as human cells is an interesting question.

Politics Professors: How to Reduce Evolution Denial

_{Jonathan Wells
March 9, 2015}

Despite several generations of relentless indoctrination, funded by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, some students still doubt evolution.

Ask an Embryologist: Genomic Mosaicism

_{Jonathan Wells
February 23, 2015}

It's the organism controlling the DNA, not the DNA controlling the organism.

All in All, Not a Great Day for neo-Darwinism

_{Jonathan Wells
February 17, 2015}

The major finding in the Nature article to which Casey Luskin referred earlier is, if anything, evidence AGAINST neo-Darwinian evolution.

For Overcoming Students’ Intuitions of Design, The American Biology Teacher Suggests Employing Evo-Devo

_{Jonathan Wells
November 20, 2014}

I just finished reading an article by Kostas Kampourakis and Alessandro Minelli, "Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development."

Revolutionary Biology

_{Jonathan Wells
October 20, 2014}

We are in the midst of a revolution in the way we conceive of living things.

Biology’s Quiet Revolution

_{Jonathan Wells
September 9, 2014}

Huge unanswered questions remain, and they will only be answered by going beyond the discredited myth that "DNA makes RNA makes protein makes us."

Junk DNA: Darwinists Say They Are "Largely Free from Assumptions or Hypotheses"

_{Jonathan Wells
July 30, 2014}

Oxford University researchers say that only 8.2% of our DNA is likely to be functional. The rest is "junk."