Month: February 2020

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal personhood, animal rights, animal welfare, Bronx Zoo, chimpanzees, Court of Appeals, elephant, Eugene M. Fahey, habeas corpus, Happy, judge, Nonhuman Rights Project, sentience}

Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 29, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, Center for Science and Culture, CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, Discovery Institute, faculty, graduate students, human origins, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, nerds, Paul Nelson, podcast, professionals, professors, summer camp, Summer Seminars, undergraduate students}

From Intelligent Design Summer Seminar to Faculty Lounge; Deadline to Apply, March 4

_{David Klinghoffer
February 28, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science Education

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It’s a (cost-free) “summer camp for science and humanities nerds,” says philosopher of biology Paul Nelson. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, components, Darwin's Black Box, Dionaea, Genlisea, Heinz-Albert Becker, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia}

Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

_{Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020

Botany, Life Sciences

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Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Alan Turing, Alfred Russel Wallace, artificial intelligence, Charles Darwin, Chinese Room, Christians, computational biology, evolution, intelligent design, John Searle, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, natural selection, S. Joshua Swamidass, Texas A&M, University of Washington, Veritas Forum, Washington University}

Josh Swamidass on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Washington

_{David Klinghoffer
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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I have to admit the event was kind of dull compared with the Behe debate. But Josh gave a nice presentation with AI/consciousness basics. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anemia, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?, blood pressure, brain, breathing, carbon dioxide, Center for Science and Culture, circulation, death, dehydration, Discovery Institute, DNA, doctor, Doctor's Diary (series), dying, exercise, fluids, foresight, health, heartbeat, infection, intelligent design, kidneys, liver, oxygen, purpose, red blood cells, redundancy, running, sleeping, stomach}

Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

The 4-4-4 rule says that we would perish without oxygen for four minutes, water for four days, or food for four weeks. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Arizona State University, Douglas Axe, dreaming, evolutionary theory, Michael Lynch, natural selection}

Evolution “Dreaming” — Tough Language from Biologist Michael Lynch

_{David Klinghoffer
February 27, 2020

Evolution

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Professor Lynch thinks fellow evolutionary biologists are “dreaming” and he does not mean that as a compliment. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, dinitrogen, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, micronutrients, nitrogen fixation, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthetic bacteria, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, adaptation, anti-fragility, causal circularity, CELS 2020, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, failure prevention, intelligent design, living systems, math, medicine, resilience}

Engineering Meets Biology: CELS 2020 Early Registration Discount Expires This Sunday

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2020

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physics

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You’ll hear about the latest research, explore new ideas, develope new skills, and collaborate to propose new research projects. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, eugenics, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fundacja En Arche, Grzegorz Malec, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, marriage, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, morals, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Polish, relationships, restaurants, Signature in the Cell, slavery, Stephen Meyer, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, World War II}

Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 26, 2020

Biology, Evolution

5}

I told the staff of En Arche that the foundation reminded me of Discovery Institute twenty years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, argument from incredulity, bees, biological information, bugs, butterflies, Charles Darwin, China, cockroaches, Darwinists, design intuition, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, fleas, flies, football field, gears, genes, humans, insects, intelligent design, logical fallacy, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, nature, planthopper, Secrets of the Cell, spiders, video series}

In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 26, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go. Read More ›