Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, "poor design", Abby Hafer, abuse, aesthetics, aging, breathing, choking, communication, constraints, degeneration, disease, epiglottis, esophagus, evolution, evolutionists, gastrointestinal system, intelligent design, larynx, lungs, multiple sclerosis, Nathan Lents, Parkinson’s disease, pharynx, respiratory system, singing, speech, stroke, syllogism, tongue, trade-offs}

The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
December 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, censorship, conspiracy theorists, COVID-19, doctors, Facebook, free speech, Internet trolls, Jay Bhattacharya, journals, LinkedIn, media, medical establishment, medical professionals, Minerva, pandemic, peer-reviewed journals, Research, scientists, TikTok, Twitter, viewpoint diversity, youtube}

How Media and the Medical Establishment Suppressed COVID Heterodoxy

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2022

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

5}

That Twitter blacklisted and “shadow-banned” prominent medical experts like Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has since been confirmed. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Bernard Kettlewell, Biston betularia, Christmas Eve, courage, creationists, Icons of Evolution, industrial melanism, Jerry Coyne, Judith Hooper, Michael Majerus, natural selection, Nature (journal), Of Moths and Men, peppered moth, Santa Claus, scientific evidence, textbooks, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

_{Robert Shedinger
December 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, blood, consequences, evolution, ID 3.0, intelligent design, iPad, Joana Xavier, money, naturalism, parrots, Perry Marshall, Philip Kitcher, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theology, University College London, William Harvey, YouTube videos}

Joana Xavier, Skepticism About Design, and a Fable About a Gray Parrot with an iPad

_{Paul Nelson
December 13, 2022

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

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Xavier, of University College London, is a young origin-of-life researcher who has steadily pursued questions of central importance. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ad hominem, Casey Luskin, Dave Farina, evolution, honor, intelligent design, Internet, misinformation, Professor Dave, propaganda, Stephen Meyer, trolls, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Postscript: “Professor Dave” and His Attack on Me

_{Günter Bechly
December 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While it was an affair of honor to defend others, I personally do not consider Farina to be a worthy opponent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Keating, Christianity, cosmologists, debate, Design Inference, faith, intelligent design, Into the Impossible, James Tour, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, natural philosophers, New Atheists, proselytizing, Rice University, Roman Catholic, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, UC San Diego}

Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

_{David Klinghoffer
December 12, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
Tagged
, children, civilization, copper, Greece, Homo naledi, Iraq, Lee Berger, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, owls, pulses, Quartz, Rising Star Cave, Shanidar Cave, South Africa, University of Liverpool, Zagros Mountains}

Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 12, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science

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Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, convergence, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Galápagos Islands, genetic information, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, Michael Behe, microevolution, mutations, peer-reviewed journals, Professor Dave, speciation, Stephen Meyer, waiting-time problem, young people, YouTubers}

“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

_{Günter Bechly
December 12, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 11, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, COVID-19, Daily Mail, death, Death with Dignity, doctor, homelessness, lethal injection, lockdown, MAiD, media, medical assistance in dying, poverty, PTSD}

Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2022

Medicine, Science

3}

In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, Evolution News, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, parts, Steve Laufmann, system, Tod Butterfield, Your Design Body}

Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology. Read More ›