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The Searchers

AUTHORS: William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II SOURCE: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. San Antonio, TX, USA – October 2009, pp. 2647-2652 COMMENTARY: Allen MacNeill First, congratulations to Drs. Dembski & Marks! Publication is the life blood of all career academics and the living heart of the intellectual process....

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The Longest Running Failed Prediction in Creationism

AUTHOR: G.R. Morton SOURCE: http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/demise.html" target="_blank"> Answers in Science COMMENTARY: Allen MacNeill First, today is the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species . So many people have written about this event that it would be superfluous for me to write about it here. However, some of...

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The Darwinian Revolution To Be Shown at Cornell

... of the Darwin Bicentennial. The host of the video series, Cornell evolutionary biologist Allen MacNeill, will be on hand at the presentation to discuss the videos and answer questions about evolutionary biology in general, and about The Darwinian Revolution video series in particular. The Darwinian Revolution is a series of six videos addressing the content and history of the theory...

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At What Level did this Evolve?

TT commenter Allen MacNeill has a blog known as The Evolution List. At the site he has an entry titled The Origin of the Specious. The blog entry contains this remark: Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series." [...]

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A New Species of Finch may have Evolved in the Galapagos

AUTHOR: Daniel Cressey SOURCE: Nature.com News COMMENTARY: Allen MacNeill As I have noted in several recent blogposts, Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published 150 years ago this month . One of Darwin's crucial examples of descent with modification in the Origin was the evolutionary diversification of a group of finches now usually referred to as "Darwin's finches" ....

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The Darwinian Revolutions Video Series

The Darwinian Revolutions An online video lecture series in honor of the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species Produced by: The Cybertower at Cornell University Written, directed and narrated by: Allen MacNeill , Senior Lecturer The Biology Learning Skills Center Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Videography by: Dina Banning Sound Engineering by: Colbert...