Tag: Haeckel’s Embryos

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Jay Richards

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June 9, 2025

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, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Getting the Facts Straight, Haeckel’s Embryos, Icons of Evolution, immaterial genome, immateriality ofthe genome, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, non-coding DNA, origin of life, PBS, The Myth of Junk DNA}

Jay Richards on the “Ground Clearing” Work of Jonathan Wells

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June 9, 2025

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Before the positive case for intelligent design can be received effectively, the case against the Darwinian evolutionary mechanism must be clearly laid out. One man who was instrumental in this initial "ground clearing operation" was biologist Dr. Jonathan Wells, our friend and colleague who passed away in 2024. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Jay Richards back to the podcast to share his memories of Dr. Wells and discuss the significance of Wells's life and work. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
March 17, 2025

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, Academic Freedom, Biology Textbooks, Charles Darwin, Darwin's finches, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Haeckel's drawings, Haeckel’s Embryos, Icons of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, peppered moths, truth in science}

How Jonathan Wells Dismantled the Icons of Evolution

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March 17, 2025

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. In a career spanning three decades, Wells made significant contributions to our understanding of the limits of evolutionary processes and the evidence for intelligent design. In this interview, Dr. Luskin describes the powerful impact Jonathan's work had on him and how it led to meaningful reform in textbooks and classrooms. He also identifies the character traits he most admired in Dr. Wells. Read More ›

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Tom Woodward

Date
March 10, 2025

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, Charles Darwin, Darwin Strikes Back, Darwinism, Doubts About Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Haeckel's drawings, Haeckel’s Embryos, Icons of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, textbook errors, textbook misinformation, textbook reform, Tom Woodward, Tree of Life}

Tom Woodward on the Impact of Icons of Evolution

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March 10, 2025

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On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Tom Woodward to the podcast to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. In Part 1, Dr. Woodward tells the story of Jonathan’s efforts to fight the battle over textbook misinformation with his 2000 book Icons of Evolution. When the book first came out, National Center for Science Education director Eugenie Scott said that Icons of Evolution would be a “royal pain in the fanny” for the evolutionist community. She was not wrong! Woodward talks about the reverberations caused by the book's release and the waves of textbook reform it has brought about. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

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Jonathan Wells

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October 2, 2017

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, __edited, biology, Darwin, Darwinism, Debate Evolution, Design, Evolution, Haeckel’s Embryos, history of intelligent design, Icons of Evolution, peppered moths, Robert Crowther, Zombie Science}

Zombie Science Author: From Berserkeley to Berkeley and Back Again

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October 2, 2017

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On this episode of ID the Future, Zombie Science author Jonathan Wells talks about his multifaceted, impressive and, at times, quirky educational history. Dr. Wells started as an undergrad geology major at Princeton and later moved to Berkeley to finish his undergraduate work. He was arrested as a conscientious objector and saw the ugly side of the anti-war movement. Disgusted, he moved to the remote mountains and there discovered evidence of intelligent design. After snagging a Ph.D. in theology from Yale, he returned Berkeley for his second Ph.D., this one in embryology. It was in studying embryos that Dr. Wells came across his first Icon of Evolution, Haeckel’s embryos. More icons soon followed. These and the dogmatism of the scientific materialists are explored in his newest book, Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution.