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Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope

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Date
May 22, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Christianity, climate change, conflict myth, creationism, Discovery Institute, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, geocentrism, heliocentrism, heresy, Inquisition, John William Draper, Jonathan Wells, Michael Keas, Nature (journal), Nicolaus Copernicus, public education, religion, Roman Catholic, science and religion, Unbelievable, Warfare Thesis, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

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May 22, 2020

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Science Reporting

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As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 7, 2019

Categories
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, bias, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin on Trial, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, Phillip E. Johnson, Stephen Meyer, stroke, Stuart Kauffman, U.C. Berkeley, Washington Post}

Wonderful Profile of Phil Johnson in…the Washington Post?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 7, 2019

Science Reporting

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In a 2005 article, Michael Powell begins by half-apologetically acknowledging that his newspaper has, in the editorial pages, taken a harsher view of ID than he evidently does. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 19, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, alt-right, bipedalism, Bronx Zoo, Discovery Institute, education, Galápagos Islands, Glenn Branch, human evolution, Human Zoos, humans, James Watson, John West, Mind and Cosmos, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Next Generation Science Standards, Ota Benga, phylogenetic trees, primates, public education, Sarah Chaffee, Texas, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Nagel, Tom Wolfe}

From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting

_{David Klinghoffer
September 19, 2019

Biology, Science Education, Science Reporting

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With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, "rational suicide", AIDS, assisted suicide, Associated Press, culture, elderly, euthanasia, New Jersey, New York Times, palliative care, Philadelphia, suicide, University of Rochester, Washington Post}

Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2019

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Charles Darwin, conservatism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, infanticide, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, John Maynard Smith, Joseph Stalin, National Review, Northwestern University, On the Origin of Species, Politics, Razib Khan, Richard Lenski, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker}

Déjà Vu at National Review

_{Michael Behe
May 14, 2019

Biology, Science Reporting

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Some guy once wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun. He must have had political conservatives’ pro-Darwin arguments in mind. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, Ben Stein, conservatives, Darwin Devolves, evolution, Expelled (movie), fear, Michael Behe, National Review, nature, Razib Khan, Western civilization}

I Don’t “Fear” Evolution

_{Paul Nelson
May 14, 2019

Evolution, Science Reporting

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Khan’s unspoken corollary: anyone who expresses skepticism about evolution is an enemy of civilization. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 3, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Christians, dentists, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, intelligent design, journalists, Kevin Williamson, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, National Review, Nobel laureates, poets, Richard Lenski, Scientific Dissent from Darwin, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Wikipedia}

Science and Its Consequences: Kevin Williamson Versus Intelligent Design, Again

_{David Klinghoffer
April 3, 2019

Biochemistry, Science Reporting

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The question before us was whether anyone but journalists and other amateurs take the science of ID, “daft rube-bait” according to Kevin, seriously. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, academia, Ben Shapiro, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, education, education policy, evolution, intelligent design, interview, journalists, materialism, media, multiverse, quantum cosmology, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, strengths and weaknesses, The Daily Wire, young people}

Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer That I’ve Seen

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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He knows the common challenges to intelligent design and poses them very articulately, and he’s obviously absorbed Meyer’s books. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Darwinian theory, David Klinghoffer, debate, Douglas Axe, human life, ideology, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kevin Williamson, lawyers, Michael Behe, natural selection, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Research, science, Stephen Meyer, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __nedited, Cambrian Explosion, complexity, Darwinism, fact-checking, Gerd Müller, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Neo-Darwinism, novelty, peer-reviewed, peer-reviewed literature, University of Vienna}

Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

_{David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›