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Robert Shedinger

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Denyse O'Leary
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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

Denyse O'Leary
April 20, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants
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
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October 7, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Robert Shedinger’s recent podcast on Darwinism vs. design

Denyse O'Leary
October 7, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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
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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

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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
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August 26, 2020
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Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Darwin skeptic focuses on the repeated evolution of the camera eye

Denyse O'Leary
August 26, 2020
Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 3, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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How a liberal seminary prof started to see the point of ID

Denyse O'Leary
June 3, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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
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March 17, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Darwin skeptic Robert Shedinger calls out Paul Davies

Denyse O'Leary
March 17, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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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Denyse O'Leary
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July 30, 2019
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Books of interest, Intelligent Design
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A prof on looking into ID literature for the first time…

Denyse O'Leary
July 30, 2019
Books of interest, Intelligent Design
“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 ›