Month: July 2019

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Date
July 31, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biological novelty, bioRxiv, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, devolution, East Africa, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, finches, Lake Victoria, Michael Behe, Nature Scientific Reports, polar bears, species, taxpayers, The Conversation, The Edge of Evolution}

Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda

_{Science & Culture
July 31, 2019

Evolution

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If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter. Read More ›

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Date
July 30, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Charles Darwin, civility, conference, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, evolution, free speech, Herman Bouma, ID the Future, National Science Teaching Association, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, Sarah Chaffee, St. Louis}

Herman Bouma: “It Was Like the Darwinian Gestapo”

_{Science & Culture
July 30, 2019

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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Backed up by no fewer than four security guards, three conference officials hustled him out, accusing him of promoting fake science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 29, 2019

Categories
Biology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, animal life, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, earth, Ethan Siegel, evolution, Forbes, foresight, global warming, human origins, intelligent design, intelligent life, James Tour, Marcos Eberlin, Science Uprising, Stephen Meyer, sun}

Life’s Hard Stop: Fortune? Or Foresight?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 29, 2019

Biology, Geology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Here’s another “incredibly fortunate” thing about the Cambrian explosion and about evolution generally. Read More ›

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Date
July 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Alexander Oparin, Charles Darwin, chemical evolution, coacervates, Darwin Devolves, Douglas Axe, evolution, Illustra Media, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Tour, Joseph Hooker, Last Universal Common Ancestor, materialists, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), New Scientist, PNAS, protoplasm, Science Magazine, Science Uprising, toxins, Undeniable (book), University of Minnesota}

Not Oparin’s Coacervates Again!

_{Science & Culture
July 29, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life

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After Oparin’s coacervate theory was presented in the 1920s, it was dismissed as unworkable. Now, coacervates are back in style. Read More ›

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Date
July 28, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, chimpanzees, DNA, gene expression, genome, humans, ID the Future, podcast, proteins, Sarah Chaffee, splicing}

More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Human-Specific Genes

_{Science & Culture
July 28, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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“We don’t splice our RNA the same way chimps do,” says biologist Dr. Ann Gauger, continuing a conversation with host Sarah Chaffee. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 27, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, crime, doctors, euthanasia, Massachusetts, physician-assisted suicide, suicide, World War II}

In Massachusetts Bill to Criminalize Suicide Encouragement, a Lethal Loophole

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 27, 2019

Medicine

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The carveout’s purpose is to pave the way to legalize assisted suicide in the state, perhaps even active euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, amino acids, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute, Harold Urey, Inference (journal), James Tour, laboratory, materialism, molecules, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientists, Stanley Miller, They Mystery of Life's Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community

_{David Klinghoffer
July 26, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, brain, chimpanzees, consciousness, David Chalmers, emergence, evolution, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kurt Gödel, machine, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, predictions, TED talk, The Atlantic}

Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, academia, artificial intelligence, Center for Science and Culture, culture, Discovery Institute, economics, evolution, George Gilder, information, intelligent design, materialism, matter, media, mind, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks II, science, Seattle, Steve Forbes, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2019

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, anti-humanism, capitalism, China, climate change, Communism, ecosystems, environmentalism, Karl Marx, Marxism, meat, Nazism, North Korea, pollution, prosperity}

Leveraging Environmentalism to Impose “Hegemonic” Marxism

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 24, 2019

Bioethics

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Environmentalism is growing increasingly anti-capitalist and anti-human. Read More ›