Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, books, culture, faith and science, Faith Versus Fact, Jerry Coyne, New Atheists, religion, religious tradition, René Girard, Sam Harris, The God Delusion}

After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Richard Dawkins says he finds it “depressing” that people now think he’s “right-wing,” even a “right-wing extremist,” because he’s anti-woke. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, biodiversification, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, fossil record, Great Ordovician Biodiversification, paleontology, preservation, radiation, sampling bias, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, undersampling}

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, darkness, disinformation, encyclopedia, headline, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, online encyclopedia, scientism, Wikipedia}

Sanger Fought Disinformation on Intelligent Design “Tooth and Nail” — But Disinformation Won

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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"I fought ... tooth and nail on the question whether Wikipedia articles should dismiss [ID] and other nonstandard scientific theories without a hearing." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biological information, genes, illusion, information, intelligence, Marcello Barbieri, meaning, molecular biology, physicalism, University of Ferrara}

Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 10, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›

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Author
Carl Linnaeus

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, asteroid, chiral centers, chromatography, enzymes, evaporation, glycine, heating, homochirality, minerals, oligopeptides, organic compounds, peptide bond, polymers, polypeptides, prebiotic world, ribose, RNA}

Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces

_{Carl Linnaeus
August 10, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, chess, evolution, fossils, intelligent design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, meaning, meaninglessness, Norway, On the Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Ball State University, censorship, Daily Wire, Eric Hedin, evolution, faith and science, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Richard Dawkins, scientific method}

Andrew Klavan, Casey Luskin: Displaced Authority and Progressive Censorship

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Klavan smells a rat when famous scientists like Richard Dawkins use displaced authority to make proclamations about science’s relationship with religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, BBC News, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, centipedes, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, cuticle, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, Hallucigenia, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jean-Bernard Caron, Live Science, Middle Cambrian, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge, velvet worms}

In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

_{David Coppedge
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, body, girls, joy, men, movies, Oppenheimer, Public Discourse, transhumanism, women}

Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?

_{Peter Biles
August 8, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

3}

The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, censorship, distortion, editors, encyclopedia, establishment, evolution, inaccuracy, intelligent design, journalists, Larry Sanger, neutrality, Politics, scientism, Twitter, Wikipedia}

Co-Founder Again Blasts Wikipedia’s “Scientistic Point of View,” “So Biased as to Be Twisted”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Yet a lot of people out there still think Wikipedia is meaningfully “vetted” and if you find an inaccuracy, you can “Update it then. That’s the entire point.” Read More ›