Month: February 2024 | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, natural selection, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Darwin’s Bluff: Peeling Back the Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he continually promised to others but never completed or published. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosynthesis, birds, determinism, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, natural selection, Neil Thomas, Neo-Darwinism, Nepenthes, recruitment, Science (journal), stochasticity, The Design Inference, Your Designed Body}

Rescuing Chance for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, anti-humanism, childbirth, civil rights, disease, doctor, gender dysphoria, headaches, infertility, Journal of Medical Ethics, measles, pathogen, patients, pregnancy, vomiting}

Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Brights, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, corpses, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Ernst Mayr, John West, New Atheism, Pharyngula, private truth, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Scott Alexander, social justice, Stephen Jay Gould, toxic masculinity, YouTube videos}

Atheism’s Four Horsemen — Where Are They Now?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 13, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

6}

"For example, I look at Pharyngula, which during its heyday was the biggest atheist blog on the Internet." Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, Asa Gray, biographers, Bridgewater Treatises, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, developmental biology, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, hagiography, mythology, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, paleontology, punctuation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, variation, Victorian period}

Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

We need to let Darwin speak for himself. It turns out that Darwin, given the opportunity, is quite capable of dismantling his own mythology. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, ID the Future, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, podcast, recognition, rhetoric, Robert Shedinger, scientific community, status}

Deconstructing Darwin: The Myth and the Man

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Harboring a secret fear that he’d become what his father said he would — a disgrace to his family — Darwin desperately sought status and recognition. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

20}

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, demythologization, dogmatism, evolution, history, intelligent design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick}

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

_{Jonathan Witt
February 12, 2024

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›

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Date
February 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anthony Esolen, Arabic, artificial intelligence, books, brains, Chinese, Discover Magazine, Dutch, editors, English, evolution, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, languages, linguists, materialist theories, Miami, quantum physics, Scientific American, software, Spanish, writers}

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›