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Sunrise at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, CO

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Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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, academia, application, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, college, Colorado, deadline, education, events, evolution, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, professionals, professors, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, students, Summer Seminars, teachers, Travel, undergraduates}

Summers Seminars: A MUST if You’re Considering a Science Career; Applications Due April 1

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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One student said he was shocked to find that the academic quality was greater than that of many of his college courses and yet it cost him nothing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationists, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, human life, improbability, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, materialism, nature, order, Oxford University Press, Stephen Meyer, Unbelievable, word salad}

Kudos: Saleem Ali, ID Critic, Agrees to Talk with an ID Proponent

_{David Klinghoffer
March 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Ali’s comments in his discussion with Meyer and Brierley are a little bit of a word salad, but never mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, evolutionary icons, Gizmodo, hominids, hominins, human origins, humans, intelligence, macaque monkeys, macaques, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, monkeys, primates, rocks, Science Advances, Thailand, The Hill, tools}

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, astrobiologists, astronomers, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, The Privileged Planet}

The Problem of Earth Privilege: It’s Getting Worse

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2023

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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So, the Earth is just a humdrum planet? Far from it, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez argues. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Nathan Jacobson

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, adrenaline, Gollum, Mona Lisa, pixels, Shrek, Space Invaders, virtual reality}

Depths of Design: Moving Pixels

_{Nathan Jacobson
March 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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None of these avatars possess any inherent intelligence whatsoever. Every human instinct therein is an extension of a game developer’s forethought. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, pregnancy tissue, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 11, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computers, copyright, critical thinking, DALL-E, Gary Smith, images, intelligence, novels, writing}

For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now

_{Peter Biles
March 11, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysics, Big Bang, CERN, Cosmic Egg, cosmic origins, creation, Energy, Ernst Mayr, evolution, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, matter, planets, stars, universe, University of Rochester}

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

_{Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, computability, DNA, evolution, genes, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, material phenomena, organisms, podcast, Richard Sternberg}

Richard Sternberg on the Trail of the Immaterial Genome

_{Science and Culture
March 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Dr. Sternberg speaks on his mathematical/logical work showing the difficulty of identifying genes purely with material phenomena. Read More ›