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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
April 18, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, adaptability, aesthetics, bad design, blood pressure, brain, disease, evolution, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk, logical fallacy, Matti Leisola, Nathan Lents, Neo-Darwinism, redundancy, Richard Dawkins, robustness}

Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?

_{Steve Laufmann
April 18, 2018

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Alfie Evans, assisted suicide, authoritarianism, Daily Mail, futile care theory, medicine, Michigan, parental rights, parents, police, Rome, Terri Shiavo, United Kingdom}

This Is What Medical Authoritarianism Looks Like

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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The Alfie Evans saga continues to roil the U.K., and it is increasingly looking like the Terri Schiavo case. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Biomimetics, birds, chick, chicken, Darwinists, evolution, eyeglasses, human eye, intelligent design, McGill University, proteins, sarcasm, Science Advances, The Guardian}

Eggshell’s Remarkable Design — A Tribute to Mindless Evolution?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

4}

The key lies in a triple-layered structure and a protein called osteopontin. Read More ›

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Date
April 3, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Cardiff University, creationism, Darwinists, evo-devo, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microevolution, pseudoscience, punctuated equilibria, theory}

Less Pseudo, More Science, Please

_{Science and Culture
April 3, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

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Cardiff University philosopher Orestis Palermos was at the center of a stir last week for a claim he made in an online lecture. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
April 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, cancer, curiosity, dogmatism, education, exploration, Harvard University, museum, nature, Research, science, stem, teaching, UC Berkeley, UCLA}

What Is Science Education About, After All?

_{Sarah Chaffee
April 2, 2018

Evolution, Mathematics, Science Education

3}

When I was in kindergarten, I remember learning about genetics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfie Evans, babies, BBC, Charlie Gard, doctors, futile care, health-care rationing, Italy, life support, medicine, technocracy, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, Dallas, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary theory, experience, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, intelligent design, laboratory, Matti Leisola, microorganisms, natural selection, proteins, yeast}

How Biochemist Matti Leisola’s Lab Experience Persuaded Him of Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2018

Biochemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

3}

Leisola describes a humble example — the enzymes in washing powder we use in the laundry, with the ability to degrade proteins. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. Read More ›

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Date
March 23, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, __k-review, A Brief History of Time, category error, Discovery Institute, Energy, equations, gravity, Hawaiian Islands, latitude, laws of nature, matter, nature, Pacific Ocean, quantum mechanics, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, TIME, universe}

“Spontaneous Creation”: Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s Category Error

_{Science and Culture
March 23, 2018

Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

2}

He asked poignantly in A Brief History of Time, “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Canada, China, coercion, disability, euthanasia, lawyer, Medicaid, Oregon, Toronto}

Canadian Disabled Man Is Denied Care but Offered Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Will euthanasia be about money? Of course it will. Read More ›