Category: Culture | Page 243 | Science and Culture Today

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Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 25, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, BBC News, education, evolution, evolutionary theory, free speech, freedom, intelligent design, law, materialism, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, tyranny, UK Parliament, United Kingdom}

UK Moves to Strengthen University Free Speech Protections

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 25, 2018

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Stretching back to the Magna Carta, British law is strongly grounded in concepts of freedom protected from abuse by tyranny. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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, __k-review, Amazon River, anti-humanism, Colorado River, Congress, courts, Ganges River, human beings, nature, nature rights, slavery, The Guardian, The War on Humans}

Animal Ownership and Antebellum Slavery — An Odious Comparison

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 24, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Favored by the animal-rights movement, the idea is misanthropic, and I would say, implicitly racist. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
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, __k-review, atheism, biologist, darwinist, Jordan Peterson, New Atheists, PZ Myers}

Atheist Activists Lament a Movement in “Shambles”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 24, 2018

Faith & Science

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The rank-and-file are increasingly interested in charismatic, sharp-witted, unpredictable, even quite humane and tolerant figures like Jordan Peterson. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Catholicism and Evolution, criminal justice, Darwin's Black Box, death, decay, Douglas Axe, eyeglasses, Father Michael Chaberek, flat earth, Forensics, human eye, intelligent design, John Jay College, John Paul II, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, maxillary sinus, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, neurosurgeon, physiology, Pope Francis, Stephen Meyer, suffering, testicles, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski}

Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
May 22, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Bruce Chapman, Columbia University, culture, Darwinian theory, economics, Ernst Haeckel, Germany, gnosticism, government, Heritage Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Politicians, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson}

Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

_{Bruce Chapman
May 22, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 19, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, disabilities, Jack Kevorkian, Netherlands, Switzerland}

Push Is on for Elderly Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2018

Bioethics

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This was always the plan. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cognition, computation, computers, Enlightenment, Henry Kissinger, human beings, machines, money, personhood, Pinocchio, The Atlantic, toaster, transhumanism}

Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, americans, bats, biologists, Bioscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, DDT, Dogs, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Jonathan Wells, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, mosquitos, paleontologists, peer-reviewed literature, public education, Richard Dawkins, science, survey, Texas, UC Berkeley, University of Cambridge}

For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing

_{Jonathan Witt
May 18, 2018

Evolution, Science Education

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Many Americans reject evolution, a recent paper suggests, because they’re uninformed. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, bias, Communism, Eastern Europe, education, history, ideology, Jonathan Wells, Marxism, National Review, pedagogy, Politics, public education, Ray Bohlin, Texas, textbooks, Zombie Science (book)}

Biased School Textbooks Aren’t Limited to Biology

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 16, 2018

Biology, Science Education

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Textbook publishers use their influence over kids and the appearance of neutrality to advance a set of strong biases. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Eric Metaxas, evolution, Free Science, free speech, intelligent design, political correctness, Socrates in the City, Spanish Inquisition, Stephen Meyer, The Kingdom of Speech, The New Yorker, Tom Wolfe}

Farewell: On Evolution “Myth” and Intelligent Design, Tom Wolfe Boldly Told the Truth

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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He built up to his final act of treason against politically correct expectations with his last book, The Kingdom of Speech, a repudiation of Darwinism. Read More ›