Year: 2021 | Page 53 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 29, 2021

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Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Carl Sagan, hostility, Into the Impossible, physicists, Stephen Meyer, theists, time capsule, U.C. San Diego, Voyager Golden Record}

Three Tough Existential Questions for Steve Meyer

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April 29, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Brian Keating asks what Meyer would put in a space-bound time capsule like the Voyager Golden Record, as Carl Sagan had the opportunity to do. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 29, 2021

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Evolution
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, bacterium, Douglas Axe, endosymbiotic theory, eukaryotic cells, homeschoolers, intelligent design, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, organelles}

Evolution’s “Can’t Get There from Here” Problem

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April 29, 2021

Evolution

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Scientists have experimented extensively on the classic lab animal, the fruit fly, mutating its genes in every way they can. Read More ›

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Date
April 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
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, Ann Gauger, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, BIO-Complexity, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin lobby, Darwinists, Dieter Braun, Douglas Axe, echolocation, functional information, gene duplication, genes, information, innovation, intelligent design, PLoS Genetics, purifying selection, RNA world, Science (journal), transposons, unguided processes}

Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

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April 29, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Athena, cargo cult, Chernobyl, chimpanzees, Darwinism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, DNA, equality, equity, Europe, intelligent design, Ivy League, John Zmirak, journalists, justice, mutations, natural selection, Queer Theory, The Stream, theology, wokeness}

Zmirak: “Darwin Addles the Mind”

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April 28, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The taproot in question is Darwinism, which “addles the mind” of the Woke elite, the “Ivy-schooled primitives,” whom Zmirak compares with cargo cults. Read More ›

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Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cleverness, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, gene recruitment, genetic code, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, podcast, population genetics, proteins, Twitter, video course}

Listen: Sneak Preview of New Douglas Axe Intelligent Design Course

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April 28, 2021

Intelligent Design

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In the full course, Dr. Axe investigates proteins and how they work, the genetic code, gene recruitment, population genetics, natural selection, and much more. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, body, brain, breathing, DNA, free will, intellect, intelligence, IQ, memory, mind, nervous system, philosophers, rational powers, soul, Thomas Aquinas, twin studies, vegetative powers, vision}

If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

_{Michael Egnor
April 28, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apostasy, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, John C. Eccles, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, racial hygiene, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

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Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, documentary, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Kutter Callaway, media, natural selection, paradigm, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project}

New Trailer Out Now — The Paradigm Project

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April 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“This is some pretty mind-blowing stuff,” as host Kutter Callaway says. “So why aren’t we hearing this side of the story on our favorite nature show?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheism, creator, intelligent design, materialists, mechanistic view, Neil deGrasse Tyson, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theism, universe, University of Cambridge}

Isaac Newton — Proto-Intelligent Design Advocate

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April 27, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Some atheists, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, have miscast Newton as a mechanist and a materialist, in their own image. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Applied Eugenics, Darwin Industry, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›