Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2023

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, climate scientists, critical race theory, gender ideology, global warming, ideology, journals, media, medicine, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, science journals, wokeness}

Why We Can’t Trust the Science Journals — A Climate Scientist Explains

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2023

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Patrick Brown left academia so he could engage in better science. And, that allowed him to write this article. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, bottleneck, dogmatism, evolutionary biologists, faith and science, humans, population, population genetics, Richard Buggs, Science (journal)}

New Article in Science Boosts Plausibility of a Primordial Pair

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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These new developments underscore the fact that there is no room for dogmatism about claims concerning the smallest population size of humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", abduction, adaptation, CELS, Charles Darwin, Columbia University, Current Biology, driver, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, gravity, Herbert Spencer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, water}

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science and Culture
September 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, health-care rationing, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Dennis Venema, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, podcast, Ray Bohlin, scientists, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution}

An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

_{Science and Culture
September 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biological information, Charles Darwin, elephant, embryos, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, Siberia, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth}

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

_{Rob Sheldon
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Christian Bjerrum, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Ken Towe, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, COSM, Dataism, Harvard University Press, human nature, humanism, Latin, Reductionism, Renaissance, Sam Altman, Substack, The Atlantic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wired, Yuval Harari}

Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

_{Peter Biles
August 31, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Aleš Hrdlička, brains, Darwinian racism, documentary, evolution, evolutionary ladder, human origins, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, John West, Maryland, Michael Medved, podcast, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Post}

Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 31, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›