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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, Christianity, deism, Deity, intelligent design, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, pantheism, physical existence, Return of the God Hypothesis, revelation, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer, Charlie Kirk: Return of WHAT God Hypothesis?

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September 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

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A listener says he is not an atheist, but an agnostic, and evidently a searcher. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Botany
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, dreaming, electrons, Günter Bechly, human consciousness, humans, materialists, Michael Egnor, naturalists, panpsychism, philosophers, spiders}

Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 1, 2022

Botany, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Tagged
, abortion, culture, eugenics, Harvard University, ideology, journals, morality, Politics, Science (journal), scientific establishment, Supreme Court, United States, wokeness}

How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 1, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics

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Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, biotechnology, Brave New World, dystopia, egg cells, embryos, experimentation, illness, lifestyle, medical professionals, medicine, public opinion, stem cells, The Guardian, United Kingdom}

“Anything Goes” Reproduction Gathers Steam

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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Medicine isn’t just about curing illness anymore. It is also a resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Read More ›

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Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, aesthetics, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Moon, natural laws, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Roman Catholic, scientists, stars, sun, theology}

Michael Behe: It’s Not a Scientist’s Job to Be Led by Aesthetics

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August 29, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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While the sun, moon, and stars move according to natural laws, it doesn’t follow that the complex forms we find in biology arose purely through natural laws. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, John William Draper, Joseph Hooker, natural selection, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, propaganda, Royal Society, Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley, X Club}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda

_{Neil Thomas
August 26, 2022

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, compassion, crime, Daily Mail, death, dignity, euthanasia, killing, MAiD, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, punishment, Spain, suffering, veterans}

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, creation, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian mechanisms, devolution, elephants, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, polar bears, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, skepticism, theology}

Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

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August 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

4}

I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Colorado, embryos, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization}

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Read More ›