Year: 2018 | Page 20 | Science and Culture Today

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September 27, 2018

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Bioethics
Evolution
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, __cedited, American Museum of Natural History, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, documentary, eugenics, history, Human Zoos, ID the Future, John West, master race, podcast, pseudoscience, Racism, United States}

When the American Museum of Natural History Promoted Eugenics

_{Science & Culture
September 27, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

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Hear about a time when a cherished American institution warmly endorsed Darwinian-inspired efforts to breed a master race. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
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, __cedited, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, __cedited, __image, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Darwin's Doubt, Deity, designer, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith, Great Minds with Michael Medved, Judaism, Michael Medved, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theism}

Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier: The Return of the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2018

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Meyer is well known as a leading proponent of ID, the scientific alternative to theories of unguided evolution. He talks here about his exciting and important next book. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __cedited, academics, atheism, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, deism, Denis Lamoureux, dialogue, dice, earthquake, Energy, entropy, Lawrence Krauss, nature, quantum fluctuations, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology}

A Deist in Christian Clothing?

_{Brian Miller
September 26, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science

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Denis Lamoureux unwittingly encourages Christians to embrace not a meaningful dialogue between faith and science but a self-imposed intellectual captivity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
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, __cedited, biotechnology, cloning, CRISPR, DNA, embryos, George W. Bush, pandemic, sperm}

Mass Human Cloning May Soon Be Upon Us

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences

3}

Human cloning has been accomplished, but the field remains generally stalled because of a shortage of human eggs. Read More ›

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Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, Ann Gauger, citations, Colin Reeves, Denis Lamoureux, dialogue, Evolution News, evolutionary science, Review, S. Joshua Swamidass, science, theistic evolution, theology, Washington University}

Response to Swamidass: Sniffing at 700+ Citations of Mainstream Scientific Literature

_{Science & Culture
September 26, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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He focuses on one subtopic of one chapter, dismissing the rest of the scientific content of the book as failing to engage with mainstream science. Read More ›

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Date
September 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, Ann Gauger, chimpanzees, common ancestor, common ancestry, Darwin's Doubt, evolutionary biology, genetic data, humans, Journal of Molecular Evolution, mice, Molecular Biology and Evolution, molecular clock, Nature (journal), organisms, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Y chromosome}

Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks

_{Science & Culture
September 25, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, common ancestor, common descent, common design, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, DNA, genetic similarity, genome, humans, mice, molecular clock, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, Washington University, Winston Ewert}

Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution

_{Science & Culture
September 24, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __cedited, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, health, health insurance, life, medical care, medicine, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", baby, birth, brain, breathing, cells, cervix, development, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, embryo, fingerprints, hypoxia, intelligent design, lungs, Modernizing Darwin (series), mother, mutations, neurons, organs, oxygen, placenta, surgery, uterus, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 23, 2018

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›