Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 4, 2013

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, News}

“Microbiology’s Scarred Revolutionary”: Carl Woese, RIP

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 4, 2013

Evolution

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Woese recognized the ubiquity of phylogenetic conflict across the tree of life. Read More ›

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Date
January 4, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, science}

Mammalian Ear Has “Extraordinary Features”

_{Science and Culture
January 4, 2013

Intelligent Design

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The spiral snail-like cochlea in the inner ear is a marvel of auditory engineering that continues to challenge and inspire research. Read More ›

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Author
Joshua Youngkin

Date
January 3, 2013

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
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, __k-review}

When Does the Right of Inquiry Begin?

_{Joshua Youngkin
January 3, 2013

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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To be a good liberal is to back academic freedom, not just at the university level, at which point it is often too late. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, science}

Dragonfly Designs Inspire Engineering

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2013

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dragonflies catch their prey in midair with up to 97% accuracy. The equipment these living Patriot missiles have to achieve this phenomenal success rate shouts "design!" not Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2013

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review}

Galton on Darwin and Eugenics

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution

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I've read many defenders of Charles Darwin who try to distance him from the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, video}

“Intelligent Design: The Most Credible Idea?” Stephen Meyer in Cambridge

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 2, 2013

Intelligent Design

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Previously, I highlighted the ID conference that took place in Cambridge, England, this summer. Read More ›

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Author
Joshua Youngkin

Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review}

Making Religious Mountains Out of Fiscal Molehills

_{Joshua Youngkin
January 2, 2013

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Surely the Guardian is not in the business of misleading readers to drive up views, so the case must at least be a little bit about creationism, or religion in schools, right? Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review}

The Non-Battle of Orleans

_{Bruce Chapman
January 2, 2013

Evolution, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The school board of Orleans, Louisiana, chose to prohibit the teaching of creationism or intelligent design in its schools. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, Big Data, confirmation bias, credibility, data integrity, data preservation, data science, John Ioannidis, Library of Alexandria, misinformation, mythology, pragmatism, replicability, replication crisis, reproducibility crisis, sciences, scientific credibility, scientific method, scientific reliability, self-correcting, truth, truth-seeking}

Science Can Perpetuate Myths

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2013

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness, Technology

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For those who believe science is a self-correcting process leading inexorably to progress in true knowledge about the world, a professor of medical statistics has a heavy dose of realism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, ENCODE, junk DNA, News}

Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #1, ENCODE Project Buries “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
January 1, 2013

Evolution

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The ENCODE project results detonated what had previously been considered among the sturdiest defenses that Darwinian evolutionary theory could still fall back upon. Read More ›