Month: September 2020 | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, academic freedom, American Revolution, arson, conservatives, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Douglas Axe, free speech, French Revolution, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, John Adams, looting, Marxism, Oregon, Portland, Richard Sternberg, rioting, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The New Criterion, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Woodlief, Wall Street Journal, Wesley Smith, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall, Yale University}

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›

The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agnostics, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, common ancestry, evolution, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, James Tour, Jerry Coyne, mainstream science, Michael Behe, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Sapientia, Sean McDowell, Stephen Meyer, Templeton Prize, The Genealogical Adam and Eve, Venn diagram, Walter Bradley}

On the Swamidass Hypothesis — The Cheese Stands Alone

_{Paul Nelson
September 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We have a lonely hypothesis standing by itself in the center of the room, which no one, including its author, will own as true. Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent evolution, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Peter Bowler, Social Darwinism, teleology, The World of Life, Tom Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: “Recent Studies Have Vindicated Wallace” Over Darwin

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September 2, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, canary in the coal mine, cancel culture, censorship, evolution, free speech, human dignity, intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, New York Magazine, race, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, scientists, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, The New Republic}

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2020

Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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This is another illustration of what Michael Egnor and others have said: intelligent design was the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to cancel culture. Read More ›

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Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Charles Darwin, faith, humanity, intelligent evolution, kin selection, Michelangelo’s David, natural selection, Pirahã people, speech, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, Turkey}

Only Wallace’s “Intelligent Evolution” Can Explain the Kingdoms of Speech and Faith

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September 1, 2020

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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In 2016 the late great journalist, novelist, and social commentator Tom Wolfe exposed Darwin’s unsolved riddle, or one of them anyway. Read More ›

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Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, amino acids, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, bacteria, biofilms, cable bacteria, carbon dioxide, electrical current, electricity, Elizabeth Pennisi, hydrogen, microbes, proteins, sediments, semiconductors, toxic wastes, University of Maryland, University of New South Wales, University of North Carolina}

Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

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September 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›