Category: Evolution | Page 194 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 2, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, academy, bullies, debates, Douglas Axe, evolutionary biology, expertise, intelligent design, professors, self-censorship}

Douglas Axe: The Sway of Self-Image in Evolutionary Debates

_{David Klinghoffer
November 2, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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You really cannot understand debates about evolution without appreciating the ego — the male ego in particular, you could argue — that is involved. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alchemy, chemical energy, chemical reactions, DNA, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), information, Jeremy England, mica sheets, molecular engines, natural selection, perpetual motion machine, physicists, proteins, RNA, self-replication, thermodynamics, UC Santa Barbara}

Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

_{Brian Miller
November 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, conflict, culture, David Lloyd, episodes, Guy Fawkes, holidays, isolation, masks, science, Science Uprising, spiders, tyranny, worry}

Science Uprising — In the Year of the Mask

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The series is aimed at reaching Generation Z. And wow, not least in this year of isolation, worry, and conflict, do young people need it! Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, compassion, COVID, Darwinists, David Sloan Wilson, disgust, Herbert Spencer, human nature, materialists, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, pandemic, PNAS, political correctness, Sam Harris, SARS-CoV-2, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, theism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses}

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2020

Evolution

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A team of known materialistic Darwinists promotes their helpfulness in solving the pandemic, but to do so, they steal values from outside their toolkit. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ACLU, atheism, biological origins, cult, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Gelernter, free speech, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, narrative, peer-reviewed literature, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Scott Adams, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, University of Chicago, Why Evolution Is True}

Inside the Evolution Silo — Darwinism as a Cult

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Evolution, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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A major news story can break outside of the silo but, because it goes against the narrative, those in the silo will never hear about it. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

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Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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Date
October 23, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Dover trial, evolution, humor, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lehigh University, logic, Michael Behe, molecular machines, mousetrap, New York Times, Science (journal), scientists, straw man, The Edge of Evolution}

November: In a New Book, Michael Behe Springs a Trap for Darwin

_{Science and Culture
October 23, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How could blind evolution arrange biochemical parts into complex functional wholes one small step at a time, as Darwin and his followers envision? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Fine-tuning
History of Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, civility, disagreement, evolution, ID the Future, ideology, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection}

Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Fine-tuning, History of Science, Human Exceptionalism

2}

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Nature Communications, oxygenation, paleontology, Precambrian, Stephen Meyer}

Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
October 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Bayesian reasoning, candidates, Communist Party, conservatism, Cuba, Darwinian evolution, elections, free speech, Harvey Mudd College, independence, intelligent design, polarization, scientists, social media}

“Castro Consensus”: Scientific Paper Takes a Fresh Look at Scientific Agreement

_{David Klinghoffer
October 19, 2020

Evolution, Scientific Freedom

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Evolutionary orthodoxy is maintained by a “Castro Consensus.” This makes the Darwinian consensus questionable and in need of re-examination. Read More ›