Month: August 2018 | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, __k-review, BioLogos, cancer, cells, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, genes, great apes, humans, intelligent design, Iron Age, iron ore, mutations, Pierre-Luc Germain, S. Joshua Swamidass, theology, tumor}

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
August 20, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
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, __k-review, body, female, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, life, Love Thy Body, male, materialists, Nancy Pearcey, nature, podcast, sexuality}

Nancy Pearcey Urges Inconsistent Materialists: Love Thy Body

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August 19, 2018

Bioethics, Philosophy

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One inconsistency is their unlivable claim that “we have no free will.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Bloomberg, elderly, health care, health-care rationing, terminal illness}

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018

Medicine

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There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget. Read More ›

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Date
August 17, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
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, __k-review, body, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Nancy Pearcey, podcast, purpose, sexuality, Tod Butterfield}

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

_{Science and Culture
August 17, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics

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Who — or what — determines what we are? Why does it matter? And how should we act in light of the answers to those questions? Read More ›

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Date
August 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Science Education
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, __k-review, Biomimetics, coding, computer science, Darwinism, DNA, education, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, mutations, natural selection, Next Generation Science Standards, Northwestern University, protein synthesis, proteins, public education, schools, Science Advances, Science Education Policy, stem, synthetic biology, transcription, translation, Wyss Institute}

Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

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August 16, 2018

Biology, Engineering, Science Education

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An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, acorn worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, electrical current, evolution, Hong Kong, invertebrates, lancelets, mitochondrion, nervous system, neurons, Nobel Prize, phylum, Placozoa, plasticity, PLOS Biology, PNAS, sea urchins, starfish, synaptic transmission, tunicates, vertebrates}

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover?

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August 15, 2018

Evolution

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Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
August 14, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 13, 2018

Categories
Botany
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Aquinas.design, Aristotelianism, body, compounds, computers, elements, Father Michael Chaberek, humans, intelligent design, man, oceans, soul, substance, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, thoughts}

New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
August 13, 2018

Botany, Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 12, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, BioLogos, faith, Fazale Rana, Genesis, human origins, interbreeding, John Bloom, monogenism, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, theology}

Dabar Postscript

_{Ann Gauger
August 12, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well. Read More ›

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Date
August 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, DNA code, evolutionary theory, failed predictions, ID the Future, molecules, podcast}

Failed Predictions Weekend: Hunter on Darwinian Evolution, the DNA Code, and More

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August 12, 2018

Evolution

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Dr. Cornelius Hunter has more to say about 22 basic predictions of evolutionary theory. Read More ›