Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, activists, Ann Gauger, cancel culture, censorship, climate change, ClimateGate, COVID-19, Denyse O'Leary, Evolution News, free speech, funding, global warming, intelligent design, Judith Curry, medicine, misconduct, Peter Biles, Wesley J. Smith}

Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 4, 2023

Environment & Climate, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Epistemology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, climate change, closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, denialism, education, epistemic virtues, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Julia Galef, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, self-deception, Stem Cell Research, TEDx talk}

Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 4, 2023

Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning

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The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cartesian dualism, dualism, Immanuel Kant, integration, John Searle, purpose, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, science of purpose, scientific advance, scientism, Thomas Aquinas}

How to Overcome Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Psychological Association, brain, censorship, debunking, education, fact-checking, Geneva, John Horgan, lying, materialism, misinformation, Nature (journal), noble lie, propaganda, Richard Dawkins, scientific reliability, scientists, The Conversation, trust, trust in scientists, universe, University of Geneva}

Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 3, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alfred Russel Wallace, biography, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Heretic, evolution, George Orwell, history, James T. Costa, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Princeton University Press}

Alfred Russel Wallace: Today’s Special Anniversary

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

"We may regretfully add Wallace to the Party’s list of obfuscating revisions. The good news is that the truth is still available for those who want to know." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, death, degradation, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, hypothalamus, ID the Future, kidneys, life, medicine, podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, water}

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 1, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent cause, intelligent evolution, James T. Costa, Man’s Place in the Universe, Martin Fichman, Michael Shermer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Ross A. Slotten, Social Environment and Moral Progress, spiritualism, The Greatest Show on Earth, The World of Life, Wales, William James, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

_{Michael Flannery
December 1, 2023

Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agnostics, Alfred Russel Wallace, angels, beauty, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, evolution, gods, human race, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, Michael Flannery, mind, nature, Nature's Prophet, power, purpose, spirits, universe, veins, Victorians}

New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, effectors, Eric Anderson, health, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, physicians, sensors, sodium, systems, water}

How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 30, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions. Read More ›