Month: June 2021 | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, The Last Resort, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, David Wolpert, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, genes, insight, intelligence, intelligent design, machine learning, natural selection, No Free Lunch, proteins, search, The Blind Watchmaker, unguided evolution, William Macready}

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, Brownian motion, entropy, flagellum, intelligent design, microtubules, National Institute of Standards and Technology, PNAS, Science (journal), Simon Fraser University}

Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2021

Intelligent Design

7}

Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darrel Falk, Denis Lamoureux, developmental gene regulatory networks, evolution, evolutionary creation, intelligent design, Jim Stump, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, neo-Darwinian theory, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

_{David Klinghoffer
June 7, 2021

Faith & Science

3}

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, affordances, biomimicry, Casey Luskin, Dominic Halsmer, earth, Hacking the Cosmos, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Oral Roberts University}

Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

_{Jonathan Witt
June 7, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

1}

Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Canada, Great Lakes, India, intelligent design, Moon, solar eclipse, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipse, William Steig, Yellow & Pink}

Eclipse Miracle — An ID Book for Children

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
June 7, 2021

Astronomy, Physical Sciences

2}

It is encouraging to me that someone else came to the same basic conclusion as I did following my observation of a total solar eclipse in India in 1995. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, fMRI, materialism, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, neurotheology, prayer}

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

_{Michael Egnor
June 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

3}

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
June 5, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptability, beauty, Casey Luskin, Dominic Halsmer, durability, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent design, International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, modularity, Oral Roberts University, peer-reviewed literature, Science}

Dominic Halsmer: Aesthetic Arguments for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 5, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design

1}

How do modularity, specificity, adaptability, durability, and other aspects of engineering systems argue for design in nature? Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cell (journal), Darrel Falk, evo-devo, Evolution News, homology, intelligent design, mutations, radius, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, tetrapod limbs, ulna}

“Fin-To-Limb” Paper Shows Destructive Nature of “Evo-Devo” Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
June 4, 2021

Biology, Evolution

3}

Because of the “dysmorphic” phenotype from a homozygous genotype, these mutant genes would be highly unlikely to become fixed in a population. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, Final Solution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Barzun, James LeFanu, Karl Marx, Michael Flannery, Nazi Germany, New York Times, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Hofstadter, Richard Wagner, Richard Weikart, Signature in the Cell, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›