Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biotech, clones, Daily Mail, Dolly the sheep, egg cell, embryos, fetuses, humans, immortality, medicine, nucleus, somatic cell nuclear transfer, transhumanists}

Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alison Abbott, Biomimetics, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Living Waters, molecular clock, Mollusca, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Paul Nelson, propulsion, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago}

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

_{David Coppedge
February 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Christianity, creator, faith, Hoover Institution, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, materialism, mathematician, Oxford University, Peter Robinson, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, scientists, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge}

Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

_{David Klinghoffer
February 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

6}

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, anti-humanism, COVID-19, equity, global warming, Greta Thunberg, health, human beings, pandemic, Peter Singer, wokeness}

Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 6, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Medicine

3}

This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", chocolate, Columbia University, David Kipping, design detection, Illinois, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lex Fridman, universe}

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, character, cladistics, cladogram, evolutionary biologists, homoplasy, Hox genes, parsimony, phylogeny, referee, University of Vienna}

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Aristotle, design detection, Gaia, habitable zone, Howard Glicksman, intelligent causes, intelligent design, materialists, natural causes, Nature (journal), Paul Sutter, programmers, radio signals, rocks, SETI, SETI Institute, signals, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

_{David Coppedge
February 6, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 5, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, California, Canada, Colorado, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, doctors, Germany, Netherlands, Oregon, Portland, Skype, suicide, Switzerland, Vermont, Zoom}

Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›

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Date
February 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, airplane, blind natural forces, car, cells, Eric Metaxas, goalposts, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Research, Socrates in the City}

James Tour: The Goalposts Are Racing Away from the Origin-of-Life Community

_{Science and Culture
February 4, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

3}

Dr. Tour explains to host Eric Metaxas why the origin-of-life community is further than ever from solving the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›