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Date
February 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, biological information, evolution, evolutionary biologists, nylonase, proteins, Sarah Chaffee}

Gauger: Is It Easy to Get a New Protein?

_{Science & Culture
February 23, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Ann Gauger talks with host Sarah Chaffee about a central argument used by evolutionary biologists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Ben Shapiro, climate change, coronavirus, First World War, future, Homo Deus, Human Nature (book), intellectuals, Ivy League, Jonathan Swift, Malcolm Muggeridge, Martin Luther King, Michael Aeschliman, Middle East, National Review, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, T.S. Eliot, The Better Angels of Our Nature}

Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 16, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy

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From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, celebrities, David Berlinski, endorsements, groupthink, Hoover Institution, human nature, intellectuals, Stanford University, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson}

Original, Incisive, Brilliant: Victor Davis Hanson on Berlinski’s Human Nature

_{David Klinghoffer
November 12, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

1}

“A brilliant indictment of scientific groupthink by an unapologetic intellectual dissident.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis, civilization, complex life, consciousness, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, David Gelernter, evolution, Greek, Human Nature (book), intelligent design, Islam, Italy, Jerry Coyne, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, materialism, Michael Behe, Paris, Peter Robinson, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Lenski, saltation, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, Uncommon Knowledge}

Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 29, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, evolution, intelligent design, speech, Stephen Meyer, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe}

The Dam Begins to Break: Gelernter’s Apostasy Attracts Mainstream Media Coverage

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 29, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

Yale computer scientist Dave Gelernter’s recent public admission that he’s giving up Darwin continues to make waves. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 31, 2019

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, abstractions, animals, Darwinian theory, humans, Jeffrey Shallit, mathematician, mercy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience}

More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 31, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __cedited, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, common descent, creationism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, divine image, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Homo erectus, human origins, humans, intelligent design, John Derbyshire, materialism, Neanderthals, Race Realism, Racism, savages, soul, subhumans, The Descent of Man, Walter Bradley Center}

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
May 21, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

5}

You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, abstraction, animals, apes, emotion, humans, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, perception, reality, spirituality}

Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Erwin Schrödinger, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

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The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __cedited, addiction, determinism, health, intelligent design, intention, learning, Mount Rainier, music, musicians, randomness, running, specified complexity, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Is All Around Us

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity. Read More ›