Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Aleš Hrdlička, Darwinism, documentary, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Religion, Human Zoos, John West, Monkey House, National Museum of Natural History, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Ota Benga, Pamela Newkirk, Protestants, Rachel Adams, Racism, Richard Weikart, Roman Catholic, Smithsonian Institution, Tablet, United States}

On a Grim Anniversary, Shocking Documentary Human Zoos Now Available on Amazon

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

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This was supposed to be of scientific interest, educating visitors in the evolutionary doctrine that placed Africans in close relationship to apes. Read More ›

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Date
September 7, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Aquinas and Evolution, Aquinas.design, Catholicism and Evolution, faith, Father Michael Chaberek, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, podcast, science, Thomas Aquinas, Thomists}

Why Thomas Aquinas Would Have Loved Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
September 7, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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As for criticism that ID is a “God of the Gaps” argument, Michael Chaberek urges Thomists to consider where that complaint leads. Read More ›

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Date
September 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, fossils, ghost lineages, Jordi Paps, Metaspriggina, Neil Shubin, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Stephen Meyer, University of Bristol}

A Beautiful, Wonderful Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle?

_{Science and Culture
September 7, 2018

Evolution

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It’s so elegantly simple, why didn’t anyone think of this before? Animals evolved because they evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, contagion, elderly, Lehigh University, Mexico, New York Times, newspapers, suicide}

Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2018

Bioethics

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September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 6, 2018

Categories
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Reid, data, debate, EPA, evolution, inquiry, Naomi Oreskes, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Nature (journal), policy, science, skeptics, Wesley Smith}

Rigorous Inquiry and Ruffled Feathers

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 6, 2018

Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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The NCSE is troubled, but this just sounds like solid science. I’m all for critical analysis of data, evaluating conclusions, and rigorous scientific inquiry. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, contagion, democracy, economics, Google, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, power, The Atlantic, tyranny, Walter Bradley Center, Yuval Noah Harari}

Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic consensus, academic freedom, Brown University, Caroline Crocker, censorship, Darwinian theory, David Coppedge, Eric Hedin, gender dysphoria, Günter Bechly, Harvard Medical School, intelligent design, Lisa Littman, methodology, PLOS ONE, Quillette, Richard Sternberg, Scott Minnich}

Suppressing Science at Brown University

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2018

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Career anxiety is exactly how heterodox thought is policed and stamped out in the academic world. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Canada, Denyse O'Leary, Evolution News, Free Science, free speech, Globe and Mail, human rights, Lindsay Shepherd, National Post, North America, students, University of Pennsylvania}

Free Speech or “Better Speech”?

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 4, 2018

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, C-SPAN, Claude Shannon, creativity, Discovery Institute, economics, eschaton, George Gilder, Google, information theory, Karl Marx, knowledge, machines, money, polymath, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, William Blake}

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, media, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, podcast}

Darwin, Wallace, Lyell — A Dispute at the Origins of Evolutionary Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design

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Contrary to popular and media myths, Darwin’s view of evolution faced from its beginning opposition and criticism from scientists that have never gone away. Read More ›