Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, censorship, COVID-19, embryonic stem cells, evidence-based medicine, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, hydroxychloroquine, ideology, medical establishment, medicine, Oxford University, p-hacking, plausibility, Politics, science-based medicine, scientism, Stanford University, The Lancet, trust, Vaccines, World Professional Association for Transgender Health}

Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Metascience, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, University of Nottingham, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Arthur Eddington, Charles Darwin, computers, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, electron, evolution, Evolution News, In the Beginning, intelligent design, materialists, nuclear power plants, physical forces, protons, quantum mechanics, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent causes, unintelligent forces}

How the Supernatural Entered Science

_{Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I recently came across a nice little video which seems to prove that π = 0. Each step seems reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, God's Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, podcast}

The Return of Natural Theology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Buddhism, Catholic clergy, Christianity, doubt, faith, funerals, Jerusalem Post, jesus, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Judaism, Kannon, King James Bible, Mindar, preachers, rabbis, sermons}

Are Robo-Pastors the Way of the Future?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

They are certainly not the answer to declining attendance and involvement that some have hoped they would be. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, blood-clotting cascade, Casey Luskin, coagulation, common ancestry, common design, Evolution News, evolutionary history, factor X, fibrinogen, gene duplication, genes, hagfish, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, lamprey, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, Russell Doolittle, thrombin}

Has Russell Doolittle Provided an Evolutionary Explanation of the Blood Clotting Cascade?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 28, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Doolittle predicts, from an evolutionary framework, that jawless vertebrates would have a simpler blood clotting cascade than the human system. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animal behavior, Carl Sagan, chimpanzees, confirmation bias, crows, Dogs, emotions, gibberish, humans, marine biologists, puppies, Scientific American, Stephanie Pappas, TikTok, Washington State, wolves}

By Using Floor Buttons, Can Dogs Talk?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The latest fad in the “Talk to the animals” arena appears to be a classic in confirmation bias. Read More ›

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Date
August 26, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, J.P. Moreland, knowledge, Michael Keas, podcast, reality, science, scientism, The Substance of Consciousness, truth, Unbelievable}

J. P. Moreland on the Contradictions of Scientism

_{Science and Culture
August 26, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Scientism is the belief that only the hard sciences can provide any reliably true knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Bruce Lipshutz, challenge, Clemens Richert, Dave Farina, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, judges, Lee Cronin, Nicholas Hud, Professor Dave Explains, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, researchers, Rice University, Steve Benner, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, alcohol, Apple, cannabis, Casey Luskin, education, geologists, intelligent design, podcast, Spotify}

An Intriguing Conversation with Casey Luskin About Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Ha, well this is a new frontier for intelligent design. Live Life in Motion is a podcast with Sam Kleckley about personal fitness. Read More ›