Month: November 2017 | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 21, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, data, evolution, evolutionary biology, John Ioannidis, medicine, narrative gloss, Nautilus, pharmacology, Philip Ball, Research, scandal, science, skepticism, Stanford University, storytelling, University of Virginia}

Science on the Rocks

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 21, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 21, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, accountability, anti-humanism, Arizona State University, capitalism, China, climate change, Communism, environmentalism, global warming, New York Times, op-ed, socialism, Soviet Union}

Environmentalism Is Increasingly Anti-Human, Pro-Authoritarian

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 21, 2017

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Science Reporting

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The dirtiest economies have tended to be Communist ones, such as the old Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 21, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, authority, Brown University, Caltech, Cambridge University, creationism, Darwin's House of Cards, Douglas Axe, education, intelligent design, John West, Judge John Jones, Kenneth Miller, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, Tom Bethell, Zack Kopplin}

NY Times Permits Intelligent Design Proponents to Speak for Themselves; Yes, Really!

_{David Klinghoffer
November 21, 2017

Intelligent Design

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Check it out this video documentary and see for yourself. Admittedly, the bar for our being impressed was very low. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 20, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, camera eye, Charles Darwin, compound eye, Darwinism, evolution, eyes, fossil record, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, photon, Rachel Adams, Thanksgiving, vision, Zombie Science (book)}

At Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

_{David Klinghoffer
November 20, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

In a powerful new short video, we consider the scientific evidence around the question of eye evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, "Out of Africa", Africa, annus horribilis, China, fossil record, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human origins, Middle Pleistocene, New Scientist, paleontology, skull}

What, Another “Rewrite” of the Human Origins Story? How About a Rethink, Instead?

_{Günter Bechly
November 20, 2017

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Sometimes predictions are not only fulfilled but over-fulfilled. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 19, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, correlation, death certificate, false dichotomy, homicide, physician, statistics, suicide, Switzerland, Washington State}

Assisted Suicide Should Be Included in Suicide Statistics

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 19, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Here are illustrations from Washington State, and from Switzerland. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, life, materialism, matter, physical existence, podcast, reality, Research, Sarah Chaffee, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

_{Science and Culture
November 18, 2017

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evolution, Julie Payette, Justin Trudeau, Kirk Durston, multiverse, naturalism, PNAS, post-modernism, Sarah Chaffee, science, Scientific American, scientism, Slate, The Atlantic, UFOs}

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, alphabet soup, dandelions, design intuition, dragonflies, Elliott Sober, eyes, functional coherence, glaciers, Hans Vodder, intelligent design, Mars, Mount Rushmore, mountains, Oklo reaction, probability, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?

_{Douglas Axe
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

5}

Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist's claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately. Read More ›

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Date
November 16, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Brave New World, CRISPR, gene editing, human beings, ID the Future, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Wesley Smith}

What Does Gene-Editing with CRISPR Portend for Bioethics?

_{Science and Culture
November 16, 2017

Bioethics, Life Sciences

1}

Wesley Smith describes a range of consequences of viewing human beings as resources to be manipulated and exploited. Read More ›