Month: December 2020 | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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December 5, 2020

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Bioethics
Ecology
Evolution
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, animal standing, anti-humanism, Darwinism, human dignity, human rights, ID the Future, podcast, The War on Humans, United Nations, Wesley Smith}

Listen: Darwinism, Bioethics, and Human Rights

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December 5, 2020

Bioethics, Ecology, Evolution

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Wesley Smith explains why we need to take the threat of the anti-humanism movement seriously. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological origins, critics, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Ray Bohlin}

Biologist Raymond Bohlin on Behe’s Mousetrap: “This Collection Is a Treasure”

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December 4, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Says biologist Raymond Bohlin, the book is a "gift to anyone passionately interested in biological origins and the debate over Darwinism and design." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 4, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, boys, brains, chromosomes, Colin Wright, females, feminists, gametes, genitalia, girls, human behavior, Jerry Coyne, John Money, males, sperm, surgery, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series}

Is It a Boy or a Girl?

_{Jonathan Wells
December 4, 2020

Medicine

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Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, building blocks, Discovery Institute, entropy, ice, James Tour, Rice University, thermodynamics}

Preview: James Tour Asks Brian Miller About Ice, Entropy, and the Origin of Life

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December 4, 2020

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Dr. Tour wants to know: "This is the origin of life. How did that first living system form?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 3, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological machines, Biomimetics, Charles Darwin, Christianity, compartmentalization, computational biology, evolution, evolutionary biologists, faith, human body, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Justin Brierley, medicine, moral argument, physicians, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, Unbelievable}

A Physician Describes How Behe, and Intelligent Design, Changed His Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
December 3, 2020

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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There’s no better tribute to the power of ideas than a changed mind. Erik Strandness is a physician in Spokane, WA, practicing neonatal medicine. Read More ›

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Date
December 3, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, cells, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, podcast, population genetics, predictions, unintelligent processes}

Behe: The Case for Intelligent Design Grows with Science

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December 3, 2020

Anatomy, Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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Evolution’s proper place of study has moved from gross anatomy and population genetics to biochemistry. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 3, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemical systems, biochemists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, religion, summer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Excerpt: Darwinism and Design

_{Michael Behe
December 3, 2020

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, biological information, Brian Miller, cells, DNA, doctors, engineers, evolutionary biologists, expertise, experts, function, James Tour, redundancy, Rice University, synthetic organic chemistry, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics}

Preview: James Tour, Brian Miller on the Origin of “Data Risk Management” in DNA

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December 2, 2020

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, annus horribilis, Brian Miller, cells, Charles Thaxton, Colorado School of Mines, Darwinism, Dean Kenyon, experts, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Marvin Olasky, metabolism, Privileged Species, Psalms, Rice University, Roger Olsen, scientists, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Texas A&M, textbooks, The Miracle of the Cell, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, virtue-signaling, Walter Bradley, World Magazine}

Life’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made Accessible

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.” Read More ›

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Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Escherichia coli, genetic code, information, intelligent design, materialists, mind, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley}

Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

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December 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›