Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, CNN, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent causes, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, Monopoly, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, podcast, professors, race, scholars, silver lining, tenure, testimony, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, worldview}

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2023

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __nedited, Australian National University, capitalism, capitalists, China, climate change, commercialism, economics, Energy, fossil fuels, free market, government, health, ideology, India, Iran, medical journals, natural resources, Politics, prosperity, The Lancet, Turkey, wokeness}

This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, cancer, cell biology, cellular function, complex and specified information, diseases, enzymes, evolutionary computation, galactic habitable zone, information, information theory, intelligent agency, intelligent design, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, molecular machines, Only a Theory, paleontology, pharmacology, physiology, predictions, protein science, science stopper, systematics}

It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Fire-Maker, gravitational constant, Guillermo Gonzalez, initial entropy, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, multiverse, multiverse theory, Nobel Prize, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Roger Penrose, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, William Lane Craig, YouTube videos}

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

_{Granville Sewell
December 15, 2023

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, phylogenetic position, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

_{Günter Bechly
December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chimpanzees, culture, David Barash, Denyse O'Leary, Disney, fiction, fungi, horror, human beings, humans, humanzee, lyrics, materialism, movies, Museum of Natural History, mushrooms, music, nihilism, Periodic Table, Pinocchio, Seattle, soul, stardust, stars, supernova, University of Washington, Victor Davis Hanson, young people}

Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, David Barash, dehumanization, evolutionary theory, Holy Grail, human-animal hybrid, humans, humanzee, Nautilus, pain, Rob Sheldon, Soviet Union, Templeton Foundation, University of Washington, worms, wrongthink}

Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, Beauty Is Your Destiny, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, On the Incarnation, Philip Ryken, Plato, Platonism, poem, randomness, scientific truth, St. Athanasius, symphony, theology, Wheaton College}

For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Bijan Nemati, culture, Darwinian evolution, DNA, E. coli, engineers, Eric Anderson, evolution, extinction, Idaho, Iraq, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, mutations, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, Why It Matters}

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, boredom, cardiovascular disease, consciousness, darkness, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, experiences, eyes, human flourishing, information, intelligent design, memory, mind, muscles, nervous system, newborn babies, obesity, rapid eye movement, Restoration, sleep, St. Louis, stimuli, wakefulness, Washington University}

Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift

_{Eric Hedin
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down? Read More ›