Category: Foundations

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa}

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __featured2, Annelida, Arthropoda, biology, butterfly metamorphosis, churches, co-ops, Creepy Crawly Complexity, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute Press, earthworm, ecosystems, education, George Damoff, homeschools, ID Education Day, Idaho, insects, intelligent design, megadrilologists, Nematoda, Paul Nelson, Pedro Moura, private schools, roundworm, schools, spiders, Spokane, Tacoma, The God Proofs, Washington State, Western Washington, worms, zoology}

ID Education Day Is Coming to Tacoma, November 6!

_{Kate Kavanaugh
October 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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This is a fantastic field trip opportunity for middle and high school students in homeschool and private school settings to interact directly with scientists. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ampersand, athan Jacobson, bookmark, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, discernment, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, news media, podcast, Rob Crowther, Science and Culture, Science and Culture Today, science reporting}

On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

3}

First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Read More ›

Getting knowledge and solving problem. Logical idea concept. Connecting last jigsaw puzzle piece.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, evidence, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, human origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan}

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

4}

Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, entertainment industry, evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideological differences, ideology, Jerry Coyne, Jimmy Kimmel, journals, lawsuits, Marcel Crok, peer-reviewed articles, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ratings, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix}

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025

Environment & Climate, Scientific Freedom

3}

In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, American Psychologist, Chronicle of Higher Education, consciousness, Etzel Cardeña, Harold Puthoff, hostility, human mind, Mario Beauregard, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nature (journal), neuroscience, Overton window, physics, Proceedings of the IEEE, remote viewing, Roger Penrose, Russell Targ, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sam Harris, telepathy, The End of Faith, The Immortal Mind, The Spiritual Brain, theories}

In Science, the Cost of Defending Materialism Is Rising

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 18, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

6}

Neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín raises — in the very venue that hosts, say, Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder — the validity of telepathy research. Read More ›

Study of quantum energy physics model of molecules and nuclear energy 3d rendering

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Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __trending, academic research, affiliation, cancel culture, conspiracy theorists, David Lindley, Eric Weinstein, Germany, Joe Rogan, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, language, paper mill, physics, Piers Morgan, pseudocience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, Team Cancel, tone policing, Wall Street Journal}

For Criticizing Her Field, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by Her Institution

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

6}

Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic credentials, academic freedom, Claire Lehmann, commenters, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, Elsevier journals, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, harassment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, pseudosciences, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

Abstract image representing quantum mechanics and the mysterious world of subatomic particles, quantum, mechanics, physics

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, conspiracy theory, Daniel Kagan Kans, Eric Weinstein, general relativity, governments, Johns Hopkins University, Leonard Susskind, physical world, physics, Piers Morgan, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Rob Sheldon, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, taxpayers, theoretical physicists, tinfoil hat, Wall Street Journal, YouTubers}

“Conspiracy Physics”: Platforming an Attack on Dissenting Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 15, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

7}

If physicists now “worry about the consequences” of long-term theory failure, it is reasonable to think that there are more serious problems in the discipline. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 11, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 86 47 (sticker), 9/11, americans, anniversary, Ben Shapiro, Bluesky, bus shelter, capitalists, Charlie Kirk, churches, city streets, conservative personalities, culture, dialogue, expletive, free speech, gangster slang, graffiti, Jonathan Choe, madness, Nazis, neighborhood, public forums, rebranding, Seattle, Seattle Central College, stickers, synagogues, United States, webinar, Zionist, Zoom}

Charlie Kirk and the Ultimate Form of Cancellation

_{David Klinghoffer
September 11, 2025

Ethics, Scientific Freedom

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It's not just on college campuses. There are many public forums, including churches, synagogues, and city streets. Read More ›