Month: October 2018 | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, alcohol, amino acid sequence, biological information, Darwin's Doubt, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans, enzyme, ethanol, evolution, evolutionary biology, fermentation, fitness, fruit, genes, genotype, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Nature Ecology and Evolution, phenotype, proteins, Stephen Meyer, word salad}

On the Evolutionary Origin of New Genes, Stephen Meyer Is Vindicated Again

_{Casey Luskin
October 26, 2018

Evolution

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Most studies simply infer or invent some story about the evolution of a gene without any experimental tests. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 25, 2018

Categories
Biology
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academia, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Communism, Darwinian theory, Eastern Europe, evolution, Free Science, gender, immigration, intelligent design, Islam, Museum of Natural History, Muslims, race, self-censorship, Soviet Union, Summer Seminars, Washington Post}

Intelligent Design and Other “Sensitive Topics”

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 25, 2018

Biology, Scientific Freedom

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Do you self-censor? Would you tell your coworkers what you think about immigration, gender issues, or evolution? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 25, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
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, __edited, euthanasia, lithium, mental illness, psychiatry, suicide}

Drug Our Drinking Water with Lithium?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 25, 2018

Ethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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If we really want to reduce suicide — and sometimes I wonder if we do — we will increase our focus on mental health as a top-tier societal priority. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 25, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, George Washington, Great Minds with Michael Medved, history, intelligent design, interview, Michael Medved, podcast, providence, radio, Stephen Meyer, The American Miracle, United States}

Great Minds: Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved See Design in the Lives of Washington, Lincoln

_{David Klinghoffer
October 25, 2018

Intelligent Design

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What’s behind the impression of intelligent direction? Just a trick of perspective, like seeing shapes in clouds? Read More ›

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Date
October 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, ID the Future, irrational, J.P. Moreland, knowledge, podcast, Review, scientism, Scientism and Secularism (book), The Stream, Tom Gilson}

Scientism: Irrational, Self-Refuting, and Contradictory

_{Science and Culture
October 24, 2018

Evolution, Philosophy

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Yet it hangs over and around all of us like the air we breathe, says philosopher J.P. Moreland in a new book reviewed by Tom Gilson. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, aliens, Arthur Eddington, beauty, bioinformatics, biomimicry, Christianity, DNA, ENCODE, faith, Houston Baptist University, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, medicine, Michael Egnor, natural world, science, Science and the Mind of the Maker, scientific revolution, surgery, theism, Walter Bradley Center}

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 24, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science. Read More ›

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Date
October 24, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, airfoil, dandelion, digestive tract, engineers, evolution, filaments, Flight, forest fire, intelligent design, motors, Nature (journal), pappus, parachute, storksbill, University of Edinburgh, Velcro, vortex, William Blake}

Flight: The Genius of Seeds

_{Science and Culture
October 24, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plant seeds come equipped to spread themselves in ways that baffle engineers. Did they invent these mechanisms by chance? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 23, 2018

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn, Carl Sagan, Children of Light, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, electromagnetic spectrum, extraterrestrial life, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, light, materialists, Milky Way, photosynthesis, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, solar system, Stephen Hawking, sun, universe, vision, water}

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

_{David Klinghoffer
October 23, 2018

Physical Sciences

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“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 22, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, doctors, health, healthy lifestyles, New York Times, nurse, opioid epidemic, patients, Politics}

Physicians Should Prescribe Pills, not Politics

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 22, 2018

Medicine

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The last thing sick people need while being admitted to a hospital is a nurse or clerk trying to get out the vote. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 22, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Children of Light, cosmic fine-tuning, critics, dependency graph, Discovery Institute, fire, intelligent design, light, Michael Denton, Privileged Species, Richard Feynman, Robert Crowther, sunlight, universe, vision, water, wave, Winston Ewert}

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True

_{David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2018

Intelligent Design, Physics

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The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters. Read More ›