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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap}

Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Discovery Institute Academy, education, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, students}

Now Registering: High School Chemistry with an ID Twist

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 7, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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But isn’t learning online a lonely experience? It can be, but not this class! Discovery Institute Academy’s High School Chemistry course is synchronous. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christianity, cultural Christianity, New Atheists, new york, religion, Richard Dawkins, William A. Dembski}

Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, "Science Says", C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, dialogue, elitism, Eric Metaxas, Francis Collins, free speech, intelligent design, lockdowns, propaganda, science fiction, scientism, Seattle, Sigmund Freud, Socrates in the City, That Hideous Strength, The Magician's Twin, totalitarianism}

C. S. Lewis on the Unique Gullibility of the Elites, and More: John West in Conversation with Eric Metaxas

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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A theme in the interview is the dubious role of elites, who stand out for their readiness to surrender their critical faculties when Science Says to do so. Read More ›

Piers Morgan interviews Stephen C. Meyer on Uncensored

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, death, dementia, grief, human being, intelligent design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, philosophers, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

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Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education

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What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Egypt, Europe, Galileo Galilei, historians, history, Isaac Newton, James Tour, Johannes Kepler, pyramids, Robert Boyle, Rome, scientific revolution, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›