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Date
March 21, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, atheism, biophysics, evidence, experimental science, fantasy science, historical sciences, ID the Future, inferential science, Kirk Durston, materialism, multiverse, podcast, proteins, testing}

Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism

_{Science & Culture
March 21, 2020

Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 11, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, accidents, Charles Darwin, culture, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, philosophers, scientists, Secrets of the Cell, theology}

With a Hopeful Message About Life’s “X Factor,” Episode 5 of Secrets of the Cell Is Well Timed

_{David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2020

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Michael Behe is a biochemist, leading proponent of intelligent design, and a wise guide to understanding the wonders of life with its mysterious “purposeful arrangement of parts.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, animals, anthropocentrism, bioethicists, humans, Jane Goodall, medical experiments, mice, misanthropy, monkeys, Nuremberg Code, rats, reduction}

Rats Are People, Too!

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 7, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Philosophy

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A philosopher and a bioethicist want a “Jane Goodall” to come forward as “an ambassador for rats.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 4, 2020

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Auguste Comte, biological systems, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, history of id, intelligent design, logical positivism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, scientific reductionism}

What Precipitated the Intelligent Design Movement?

_{Michael Flannery
March 4, 2020

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Here are some thoughts prompted by a rather curious question posed to me in an email, namely, “What were the findings that most helped ID since the turn of the millennium?” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 3, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, aesthetics, Cambridge University, Duke University, E.O. Wilson, Freeman Dyson, intelligent design, miracles, New York Times, pseudoscience, scientists, Signature in the Cell, telepathy, The New York Review of Books, Wendell Berry}

Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”

_{Michael Flannery
March 3, 2020

Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.” Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, oxygen, pesticides, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science & Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. 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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Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, berkeley, California, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, Illustra Media, intelligent design, materialism, networking, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, Stephen Meyer}

Listen: In Berkeley, California, Stephen Meyer Honors Phillip Johnson

_{Science & Culture
January 21, 2020

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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These messages come mostly from a November 2019 symposium held in Johnson’s honor in Berkeley, California. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Ben Shapiro, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary science, Germans, human beings, Human Nature (book), interview, Jews, Nazis, science, Sunday Special}

Fast Track: Speeding Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski to You NOW

_{David Klinghoffer
November 24, 2019

Evolution, Philosophy

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David and Ben cover the philosophical and political attack on essentialism, why evolution is fundamentally at odds with a fixed nature to human beings, and much more. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, David Berlinski, history, Hoover Institution, Human Nature (book), journalism, Stanford University, Uncommon Knowledge}

“Erudite,” “Profound,” “Beautifully Wrought”: Peter Robinson on Berlinski’s Human Nature

_{David Klinghoffer
November 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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“As shocking and indignant as the best journalism. The work of a magnificent mind.” Read More ›