Charles Darwin

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Robert Shedinger
February 12, 2024
Intelligent Design

Darwin’s Bluff

Robert Shedinger
February 12, 2024
Intelligent Design
In this fascinating piece of historical detective work, Robert Shedinger draws on Darwin’s letters, private notebooks, and an unfinished manuscript to piece together a puzzle and reveal an embarrassing truth: Darwin never finished his sequel to The Origin of Species because in the end he could not deliver the empirical evidence he promised would validate his theory. Read More ›
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Scott Minnich and Eric H. Anderson
December 13, 2023

Hitting the Brakes on ‘Rapid Evolution’

Scott Minnich and Eric H. Anderson
December 13, 2023
On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson concludes his Why It Matters interview with microbiologist Dr. Scott Minnich. In Part 2, Dr. Minnich critiques Lenski's famous Long Term Evolutionary Experiments. Through experiments of his own, Minnich has shown how the practical results of Lenski's project on E. coli are easily repeatable under different conditions, and how some key changes to E. coli are even reversible, both of which speak more to an organism's pre-existing capabilities than to a Darwinian explanation. This is the conclusion to a two-part interview. Read More ›