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David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Africans, birds, Black Lives Matter, Breitbart, cancel culture, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, colonialism, Europeans, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galápagos Islands, ID the Future, Kurt Zindulka, London, Natural History Museum, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Fitzroy, science, scientific racism, strengths and weaknesses, T.H. Huxley, Thomas Malthus}

Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? “Exotic birds” are now judged to be offensive. What next? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, computer programs, computers, David Berlinski, DNA, engineers, Eric Holloway, evolution, gargoyle, Human Nature (book), M.-P. Schützenberger, mathematician, Mind Matters, natural selection, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, University of Pennsylvania, Wistar Institute}

The Gargoyle’s Challenge — Remembering Schützenberger on Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2020

Evolution

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David Berlinski lives in the shadow of the Notre-Dame in Paris and poignantly remembers the cathedral before it burned. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, humanoids, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, purpose, The Miracle of the Cell, universe}

Behe on Denton’s Latest: “The Universe Miraculously Got [It] Right”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics, Technology

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"Michael Denton is the world’s most profound thinker about the physical and chemical requirements for the existence of a humanoid species like ourselves." Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, bilaterians, biology teachers, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Ediacaran Period, Günter Bechly, inventiveness, Kimberella, mollusk, precambrian fossils, professors, saltation, Stephen Meyer, students, Yilingia}

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, alt-right, creator, Darwinism, demiurge, Discovery Institute, evolution, gnosticism, human beings, Human Zoos, intelligent design, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Margaret Sanger, New York City, New York Times, Ota Benga, Planned Parenthood, progressivism, racial equality, scientific racism}

Racial Conflict and Scientific Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Protests are convulsing Louisville, KY, over the death of Breonna Taylor. How is the legacy of scientific racism reflected in today’s unrest? Read More ›

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Date
September 23, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birds, circadian clock, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionists, firefighters, fruit flies, functional information, humans, infants, insects, intelligent design, mammals, natural selection, neurons, phylogeny, rapid eye movement, rats, reptiles, roundworms, Science Advances, sleep}

Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

_{Science and Culture
September 23, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, anti-intellectualism, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, biological adaptation, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, synthesis, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

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Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, annelids, Anomalocaris, arthropods, bristle worm, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Cryogenian Period, Darwinism, Darwinists, earthworms, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, microbes, Namapoikia rietoogensis, paleontologists, Porifera, precambrian fossils, sponges, stromatolites}

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2020

Evolution

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The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, African Savannah, atoms, bacteria, Big Bang, cheetahs, chemical elements, cynicism, Discovery Institute, elements, gazelles, hydrogen, intelligent design, King’s College London, media, Michael Denton, miracle, neutrophils, nitrogen, oxygen, Periodic Table, primal blueprint, relationships, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, Vanderbilt University, water, white blood cells}

New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature’s Miraculous “Primal Blueprint”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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To see cells in action, he notes a remarkable video, “Neutrophil Chasing Bacteria,” made in 1950s by a researcher at Vanderbilt University. Read More ›

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Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, genocide, ID the Future, Margaret Sanger, Michael Keas, Planned Parenthood, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, The Descent of Man}

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

_{Science and Culture
September 21, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution. Read More ›