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April 17, 2022

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Biology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
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, academic freedom, Adam Shapiro, biology teachers, Casey Luskin, conferences, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, graduate students, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, law, New York Times, Nobel laureates, peer-reviewed literature, Research, Science and Religion (book), scientists, teaching, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Unbelievable}

Luskin, Shapiro: Has Intelligent Design Waned?

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April 17, 2022

Biology, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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Shapiro suggests that ID often amounts to a presenter highlighting an amazing feature in biology and then giving glory to God. Read More ›

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Date
April 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, Adam Shapiro, Casey Luskin, debates, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, podcast, Science and Religion (book), The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theology, Unbelievable}

Listen: Luskin and Shapiro on Using, and Abusing, the Term “Intelligent Design”

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April 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Geologist Casey Luskin and science historian Adam Shapiro debate the meaning and prospects of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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, anesthesia, Claude Bernard, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, heliotropism, miRNAs, nervous system, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, Venus flytrap, worms}

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

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April 15, 2022

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Sociology
Tagged
, Big Government, blacks, causation, Charles Darwin, correlation, Darwinian racism, elitism, evolution, evolutionists, human evolution, intellectuals, racial inequality, Racism, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

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April 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Sociology

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This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, Canada, compass, convergence, cows, cryptochromes, Darwinian theory, evolution, fish, humans, intelligent design, Japan, Living Waters, magnetic field, Monarch butterflies, Nature Materials, Nature News, New Scientist, pigeons, reptiles, salmon, sea turtles}

An Engineering Marvel, Animals Find Their Way by Reading Earth’s Magnetic Field

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April 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design predicts that organisms will be equipped with complex systems that can take advantage of environmental cues and respond with precision. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Dogs, emotions, foraging, fungi, Google Translate, humans, hyphae, intelligence, mushrooms, neurons, neuroscience, The Scientist, University of Exeter, wolves}

Not Just Plants — Even Fungi Like Mushrooms — Talk to Each Other?

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April 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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They are NOT judging us but they do have complex communications systems interacting with their environment. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
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, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

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April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary biology, first living cell, Harold Urey, hot springs, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, materialism, microbes, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, nature, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment

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April 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ATP synthase, bacteria, Cassini mission, dinitrogen, hemoglobin, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, microbes, Nature (journal), New Horizons, nitrogen, Pluto}

Microbe Performs Rocket Science, Vital for Life on Earth

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April 13, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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This little machine, which also knows how to recycle and reuse all its parts in a sustainable “green” way, keeps the nitrogen in balance for the whole planet. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›