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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
June 9, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, ARF, China, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Nature (journal), scientists, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith}

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

_{Elizabeth Whately
June 9, 2021

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, The Last Resort, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darrel Falk, Denis Lamoureux, developmental gene regulatory networks, evolution, evolutionary creation, intelligent design, Jim Stump, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, neo-Darwinian theory, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

_{David Klinghoffer
June 7, 2021

Faith & Science

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What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, fMRI, materialism, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, neurotheology, prayer}

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

_{Michael Egnor
June 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

3}

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, Final Solution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Barzun, James LeFanu, Karl Marx, Michael Flannery, Nazi Germany, New York Times, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Hofstadter, Richard Wagner, Richard Weikart, Signature in the Cell, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021

Bioethics

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Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, bones, brain power, dairy products, heart disease, high blood pressure, ideologues, meat, milk, PETA, veganism}

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 27, 2021

Bioethics

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I have no complaint against people who refrain from consuming animal products. Making choices based on one’s moral view is an aspect of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 26, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, decay, environmentalism, intelligent design, John Zmirak, Lawrence Krauss, race, Return of the God Hypothesis, social justice, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, theology}

Meyer: Is the Author of Nature’s Design Good? And Other Questions

_{David Klinghoffer
May 26, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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We have an exceptionally woke Congregational church in the neighborhood that has a marquee out front whose contents I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer}

Our Debt to the Scientific Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
May 26, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins are right that the question about God's existence is also a question about science, and can be adjudicated as such. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
May 25, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, atheism, Charles Darwin, Evolution News, Francis Collins, intelligent design, Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey, materialism, Peter Singer, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Tanzania, Templeton Foundation, The Descent of Man, theism}

Jane Goodall Meets the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
May 25, 2021

Bioethics

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Goodall proves that rejecting materialism is not the end of the story. Even opening up the floor for intelligent design is not the end of the story. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, "poor design", bioengineering, biological information, biotechnology, blindness, design intuition, Erika DeBenedictis, evolutionary processes, genome, genome editing, Hg38, intelligent design, iPhone, MIT, optimality, TEDx talk}

Intelligent Design Has Implications for Genome Editing

_{Emily Reeves
May 24, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Biology is a lavish display of sophisticated designs exceeding all human engineering to date. Read More ›