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Michael Egnor

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April 7, 2020

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Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Psychology
Sociology
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, __cedited, calculus, Congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, economics, elderly, epidemiology, euthanasia, experts, health, neurosurgeon, Politics, President, probabilities, public policy, scientists, social distancing, Thomas Aquinas}

Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology

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Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, __cedited, accidents, animal breeding, Aristotle, bats, chaos, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, entropy, evolution, functional complexity, humans, intelligent design, microbes, natural selection, pandemic, PZ Myers, random variation, teleology}

Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Undirected natural selection can’t lift itself by its own bootstraps — accidents can’t happen in nature except in a sea of design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2020

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Medicine
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, __cedited, antibiotics, creation myth, creationists, doctors, evolution, Evolution News, fairy tales, medical research, narrative gloss, Philip Skell, PZ Myers, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), thought police}

Darwinian Biologist Notices that Evolution Is Irrelevant to Medical Research

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2020

Medicine

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Fairy tales about survival of survivors contribute nothing to medical research, or to any other research. Read More ›

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Date
April 4, 2020

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Biology
Medicine
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, __cedited, antibiotic resistance, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, healthcare, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, medical students, medicine, podcast, Ray Bohlin, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series)}

Why Not Darwinian Medicine?

_{Science & Culture
April 4, 2020

Biology, Medicine

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Has Darwinism furthered healthcare? What about our understanding of antibiotic resistance? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
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, __cedited, antibiotics, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, Darwinian medicine, Darwinism, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologists, exercise, Immune System, infection, malaria, medical science, natural selection, obesity, oncologists, pandemic, Randolph Nesse, SARS-CoV-2, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series)}

The Myth of “Darwinian Medicine”

_{Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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The very admission that Darwinism has had no role in medical science is a telling argument not for its inclusion, but for its irrelevance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2020

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Medicine
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, __cedited, adult stem cells, coronavirus, COVID-19, electricity, malaria, New York State, optimism, United States, vaccine}

COVID-19 Adult Stem-Cell Trials: A Hopeful Sign

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2020

Medicine

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No, it is not a cure. Much more work remains to be done to even get close to saying it is. Read More ›

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Date
April 1, 2020

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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Viruses: An Intelligent Design Perspective

_{Science & Culture
April 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Certainly, in a context of global anxiety, this is a subject that needs to be approached with sensitivity and humility. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 30, 2020

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Faith & Science
Medicine
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Are Evangelicals “Crippling” Our Coronavirus Response?

_{Michael Egnor
March 30, 2020

Faith & Science, Medicine

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Evangelicals didn’t cause this plague, and we desperately need the courage and wisdom that they have always brought to bear against pandemics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, __cedited, Andrew McDiarmid, chloroquine, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, evolution, Food and Drug Administration, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, Plasmodium falciparum, SARS-CoV-2, South America, Spain, The Edge of Evolution, viruses}

Approved by FDA Against COVID-19, Chloroquine Is Also Prominent in the Case for Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Something I had not heard before is a really clear explanation of how chloroquine works, on the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum and, perhaps, on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, body plans, Charles Darwin, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, evolution, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, living cell, macroevolution, medicine, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, On the Origin of Species, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses, World Health Organization, Wuhan}

Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

_{Jonathan Wells
March 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›