Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 24, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , __tedited, design intuition, intuitions, promotions, Undeniable (book) If You Could Get a Critic to Read Just One Book about Intelligent Design, It Might be Undeniable David Klinghoffer July 24, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 4 Dr. Axe's new book speaks to everyone, and who would know better than a NY Times bestselling novelist like Dean Koontz? Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 22, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionLegal Science (jurisprudence)Science Education Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News The Lowdown on the Louisiana Science Education Act Sarah Chaffee July 22, 2016 Evolution, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education 1 It's ironic that a law aimed at clarifying science for students should provoke so much obfuscation from its critics. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, assisted suicide, culture of death, euthanasia, freedom of conscience, Hippocratic Oath, legislation, palliative care Culture of Death Brings Tyranny to Vermont Wesley J. Smith July 21, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 2 Authorities in the state require doctors to counsel terminally ill patients on receiving assisted suicide. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, argument from authority, design intuition, feelings, logical fallacies, persuasion, public opinion, scientific debate, skepticism, tribalism, trust in scientists, Undeniable (book) Scientists Aren’t Exempt from Feelings, Any More Than the Public Is David Klinghoffer July 21, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 6 And no, that's not entirely a bad thing. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 20, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, News, world Quebec Can’t Wait to Kill Wesley J. Smith July 20, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a "safeguard" against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, junk DNA, science On Junk DNA Claim, Francis Collins Walks It Back, Admitting “Hubris” David Klinghoffer July 19, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 1 By "hubris" perhaps he means the overweening tendency to assume that scientific opinion as constituted at the moment has got it all figured out. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesPhilosophy of Science Tagged , __tedited, ethicists, eugenics, relativism, scientism, scientocracy, Social Darwinism Yes, There Can Be Science Without Scientism, and Without Relativism Sarah Chaffee July 19, 2016 Philosophy of Science 4 Can we reject the confines of pure materialism without rejecting the information-value of data? Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language Michael Egnor July 19, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 16, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, bioethics, consent, futile care, Health & Wellness, medical ethics, medical futility, patients American Medical Association Playing “Hide the Ball” with Futile Care Rule? Wesley J. Smith July 16, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 3 "Futile care" is ad hoc health care rationing. Read More ›
