Year: 2020 | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Lord Acton, Oliver Cromwell, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

_{Michael Flannery
December 23, 2020

Evolution

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It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, binoculars, creation, Evolution News, heavens, Hubble Space Telescope, intelligent design, NASA, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Return of the God Hypothesis, stars, Stephen Meyer, telescopes}

The Heavens Declare: Looking Forward to 2021

_{David Klinghoffer
December 22, 2020

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Center for Science and Culture, college campuses, curator, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, employers, Evolution News, Facebook, Germany, intelligent design, Kimberella, paleontology, scholarship, scientists, social media, State Museum of Natural History, students, Stuttgart, truth, Twitter, underground, wokeness}

Günter Bechly: Welcome to the Underground

_{David Klinghoffer
December 22, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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It’s become suffocating on the surface, so truth seeks shelter. The experience of being canceled is no longer limited to speakers on college campuses. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, blood clotting, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mousetrap, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
December 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Carboniferous Period, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinians, extinction, Graham Budd, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, machine learning, On the Origin of Species, Paleobiology Database, paleontologists, Phanerozoic Eon, Tokyo Institute of Technology}

Grandeur in Extinctions?

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2020

Evolution

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New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abuse, assisted suicide, Austria, courts, free will, Germany, guidelines, Humanize, legislators, rights, self-determination, suicide}

Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Read More ›

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Date
December 19, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, bacteria, birds, Darwinian theory, devolution, flightlessness, function, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, molecular evolution, molecular level of life, niche advantages, peer-reviewed literature, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Michael Behe: Evolution by Devolution

_{Science and Culture
December 19, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution

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An example of this devolutionary process on a showy scale? Flightless island birds, devolved from birds that could fly. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Adam and Eve, atheism, biologists, chloroquine, City University of New York, Columbia University, critics, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, Evangelical Christians, evolutionists, friendship, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, Nathan Lents, op-ed, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal)}

The Myth of Behe “Refuted”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Once again, Darwinists seek to avoid an argument by using clever talk, giving the false impression of a scientist, Behe, who brushes away challenges. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Brian Miller, cells, Center for Science and Culture, chemists, computers, design detection, Discovery Institute, information, James Tour, Rice University, Science & Faith podcast}

Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

_{Jonathan Witt
December 18, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

1}

They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Debating Design, function, Irreducible Complexity, John McDonald, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), parts, Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Stuart Kauffman, toothpicks, type III secretion system, William A. Dembski}

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

_{Michael Behe
December 18, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›