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Robert Shedinger

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 20, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Darwin wrote a book about orchids — and it was better received than Origin of Species

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April 20, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Shedinger: Unlike with the Origin, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Reviewers were extremely impressed with Darwin’s detailed documentation of the variety of contrivances in orchids. But much to Darwin’s dismay, they did not see this as evidence of natural selection. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Robert Shedinger’s recent podcast on Darwinism vs. design

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October 7, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Luther College prof Robert F. Shedinger has two books, Jesus and Jihad: Reclaiming the Prophetic Heart of Christianity and Islam and The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms: Darwinian Biology's Grand Narrative of Triumph and the Subversion of Religion. It appears that, although the intention was to talk about both books, the design controversy stole the show. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 13, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The casual racism of Charles Darwin

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July 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Shedinger calls Allison Hopper’s piece in Scientific American, “startlingly vacuous,” which raises — once again — the question of why on earth the mag published it. It’s not as if there is no scholarship on the topic of Darwin and racism. Did the editors not want to address that scholarship? Well, we can’t read minds but we can make some reasonable guesses. How about: Create a big uproar and hope everyone will focus on that and not on the topic at hand? Shedinger also notes perceptively, “One does not become racist because of the view one holds on human origins. One becomes racist for other complex reasons and then reads that racism back into whatever view on human origins you hold.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 26, 2020
Categories
Convergent evolution
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Darwin skeptic focuses on the repeated evolution of the camera eye

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August 26, 2020
Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Shedinger: But how could a similar series of mutations of the sort necessary to produce similarly structured eyes in different lineages occur so many times independently if the mutations are randomly produced? Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 3, 2020
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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How a liberal seminary prof started to see the point of ID

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June 3, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Shedinger: “ Darwinism… in more recent times has grown into a philosophical grand narrative designed to naturalize and normalize a fully materialist worldview.” Indeed. And that’s WHY there is so much controversy over teaching Darwinism in tax-supported schools with compulsory attendance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 17, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Darwin skeptic Robert Shedinger calls out Paul Davies

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March 17, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Shedinger, author of The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms: Darwinian Biology’s Grand Narrative of Triumph and the Subversion of Religion (Cascade, 2019), offers some thoughts on origin-of-life theorist Paul Davies’ decades-long dance around design in nature. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 30, 2019
Categories
Books of interest
Intelligent Design
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A prof on looking into ID literature for the first time…

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July 30, 2019
Books of interest, Intelligent Design
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“this literature was far more scientifically substantive than the usual caricature, and this drove me to immerse myself in the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to see if it was as convincing as usually portrayed.” Um, yes. And the longer such critiques can be evaded rather than addressed, the more substantive they will be. Read More ›