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On this ID The Future<\/strong> from the vault, Zombie Science<\/em><\/a> author and biologist Jonathan Wells dissects some recent hype over Darwin\u2019s finches, an icon of evolution that just won\u2019t stay buried. Seventeen years after Wells\u2019 book\u00a0Icons of Evolution<\/em>, a thorn in the side of Darwinists, Darwin\u2019s finches are back in the news and can still be found in biology textbooks despite the fact that, as Wells explains, they illustrate no net evolutionary change nor did they play a role in helping Darwin formulate his theory. As Wells\u2019 Zombie Science<\/em> book title suggests, the finch-beak icon has been killed by the facts, but like a zombie, it just keeps coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this ID The Future from the vault, Zombie Science author and biologist Jonathan Wells dissects some recent hype over Darwin\u2019s finches, an icon of evolution that just won\u2019t stay buried. Seventeen years after Wells\u2019 book\u00a0Icons of Evolution, a thorn in the side of Darwinists, Darwin\u2019s finches are back in the news and can still be found in biology textbooks despite the fact that, as Wells explains, they illustrate no net evolutionary change nor did they play a role in helping Darwin formulate his theory. As Wells\u2019 Zombie Science book title suggests, the finch-beak icon has been killed by the facts, but like a zombie, it just keeps coming.","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":40432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/37807209-1758-4e2f-9689-656f254a3309-IDTF-1582-JonathanWells-Finches-Repost.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"951378","podmotor_episode_id":"1068587","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:09:38","filesize":"8.8 mb","filesize_raw":"9255197","date_recorded":"2022-04-01 13:38:40","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1582","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,3452,183,269,5310,403,410,562,5312,5006,5311,5319,5316,5313,777,5317,945,1010,5318,5315,5314,1404,2140,1650],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-40428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__repeat","tag-adaptation","tag-biology-textbooks","tag-charles-darwin","tag-darwins-finches-2","tag-darwinian-evolution","tag-darwinism","tag-evolution","tag-finch-beaks","tag-finches","tag-galapagos-islands-2","tag-hybridization","tag-hybrids","tag-hype","tag-icons-of-evolution","tag-incipient-species","tag-macroevolution","tag-microevolution","tag-peter-and-rosemary-grant","tag-peter-grant","tag-rosemary-grant","tag-speciation","tag-voyage-of-the-beagle","tag-zombie-science","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Jonathan Wells"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/galapagos-finch-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/40428\/1582.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40428\/1582.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40428\/1582.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Jonathan Wells Battles Darwin\u2019s Zombie Finches<\/a><\/blockquote>