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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, California State University Stanislaus, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, ID the Future, master race, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity}

Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
May 2, 2021

Bioethics

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The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
April 18, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Eric Anderson, Every Life Is on Fire, experiments, ID the Future, Jeremy England}

Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics, and Jeremy England

_{Jonathan Witt
April 18, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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While England’s laboratory work is fascinating, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
April 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, evolution, ID the Future, podcast, protocells, Rob Stadler}

Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells

_{Jonathan Witt
April 6, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Rob Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 22, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Amazon, atheism, Barnes & Noble, Canceled Science, Eric Anderson, Eric Hedin, ID the Future, logic, natural causes, natural science, physicists, podcast, scientists, Theory of Everything, universe}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

_{Jonathan Witt
March 22, 2021

Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 17, 2021

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, Charles Darwin, creator, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, The Time Machine, William Shakespeare}

Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
March 17, 2021

Arts, Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 25, 2021

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, common descent, Cretaceous Period, Eric Anderson, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jurassic, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, podcast, Richard Buggs}

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

_{Jonathan Witt
February 25, 2021

Life Sciences

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A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 16, 2021

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, cancel culture, censorship, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Hedin, Europe, free speech, freedom from religion foundation, Indiana, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, naturalism, News, pre-order, purpose, scientific materialism, University of Washington}

New Book by Physicist Eric Hedin Challenges Atheist Cancel Culture

_{Jonathan Witt
February 16, 2021

Scientific Freedom

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Atheists targeted the Ball State University scientist after they learned his honors course dared to expose students to evidence of design in the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 1, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Larry Moran, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, microbes}

A Mousetrap for Blind Evolution, and Larry Moran

_{Jonathan Witt
February 1, 2021

Biochemistry, Evolution

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Michael Behe also discusses recent research confirming Dollo’s Law, and why that’s bad news for Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 25, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Genetics
Tagged
, abortion, cattle, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, economics, eugenics, Jay Richards, law, Politicians, scientists, specialists, Wesley J. Smith}

The Arrogant Mistake that Is Scientism

_{Jonathan Witt
January 25, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics, Genetics

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The tweet reads, “Imagine a world is ruled by scientists, not by politicians.” The drift of the tweet appeared to be, wouldn’t that be wonderful! Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 23, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, aliens, American history, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, humans, images, information, Mount Rushmore, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

_{Jonathan Witt
January 23, 2021

Intelligent Design

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A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Read More ›