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Authors

Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Month

August 2024

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Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by Alain Herzog, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Richard Weikart
Date
August 12, 2024
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
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Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

Richard Weikart
August 12, 2024
Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine
9
History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›
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Photo: Geysers of Enceladus, by NASA/JPL/SSI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
Date
August 12, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Enceladus as a Habitability Test

David Coppedge
August 12, 2024
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
9
High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus? Read More ›
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Photo credit: W. Carter, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
August 12, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
5
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›
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Photo credit: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
August 11, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science

Denyse O’Leary
August 11, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
7
The story the public is told is contrary to evidence but scientists have to keep telling it because otherwise the wrong people might benefit. Read More ›
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Photo credit: National Cancer Institute, via Unsplash.
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 10, 2024
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2024
Bioethics, Medicine
5
Can you see it? Putin calling the Hastings Center and asking for a bioethics consultation before invading Ukraine. Read More ›
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Image: The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 9, 2024
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024
Bioethics, Medicine
3
"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›
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Photo: Samango monkey, by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Casey Luskin
Date
August 9, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince

Casey Luskin
August 9, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
6
Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails. Read More ›
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Photo credit: RECOLNAT (ANR-AA-INBS) - Gaëlle Doitteau, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
August 9, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›
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August 8, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

Science & Culture
August 8, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
August 8, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
16
This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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