Month: August 2023 | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, dairy cows, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, McCarthyism, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Oppenheimer, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States, wrongthink}

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, butterfly, CDC, death certificate, Death with Dignity, disease, doctors, dung beetle, medical aid in dying, overdose, statistics, suicide, United States}

CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Psychology
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, Elie Feder, fine structure constant, ID the Future, numbers, physical constants, physicists, Physics to God, podcast, Richard Feynman, universe}

Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 15, 2023

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Psychology

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It’s time to get more intimately acquainted with the strange and wonderful numbers that hold our universe together. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, artifacts, books, chemical evolution, chemical reactions, complex specified information, Ernst Mayr, genes, Hubert Yockey, humans, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, letters, Marcello Barbieri, molecular machines, music, numbers, photos, pixels, proteins}

Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Carl Woese, conservation of function, function, functional synonyms, genes, Genome Biology, genomes, last bacterial common ancestor, orthodoxy, Tree of Life}

Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

_{Paul Nelson
August 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, electrons, fluid flow, Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion, mathematician, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, square root, zero}

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

_{Eric Hedin
August 15, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, USSR, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, alpha male, Baylor University, Bruce Gordon, cosmological constant, cosmos, Francis Crick, insanity, intelligent design, John Barrow, John Horgan, Nobel laureates, Paul Davies, Peter Atkins, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Texas, The Nature of Nature, William A. Dembski}

John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

_{Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Duquesne University, education, educators, Enlightenment, faith and science, Franciscan University, God's Grandeur, Greek philosophers, integration, intelligent design, jesus, John Henry Newman, Logan Gage, Roman Catholic, schools, scientific materialism, Sophia Institute Press}

Teaching Intelligent Design to Revitalize Catholic Education

_{Brian Miller
August 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Physics, Science Education

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Many Christian schools teach the same curriculum that secular schools do with some added religious flavoring. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Marcus, COVID-19, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, Ivan Oransky, John Ioannidis, Matt Ridley, neuroscientists, Retraction Watch, scandal, science, Stanford University, The Guardian, Theo Baker, Times Higher Education}

Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2023

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Read More ›