Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, António Guterres, courts, development, Disney World, Elizabeth Kolbert, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, Orlando, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations}

Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

3}

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Carl Sagan, DNA, double helix, early Earth, Francis Crick, Harold Urey, James Watson, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Nobel Prize, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

_{Neil Thomas
April 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Argument from Reason, artificial intelligence, Cambridge University, chess, computer games, Darwinism, intelligent design, intelligent ETs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John West, Martin Rees, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stephen Hawking, The Magician's Twin, Voyager Golden Records, Voyager spacecraft}

C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

_{David Coppedge
April 12, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

8}

How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, China, churches, COVID-19, Dennis Prager, dystopia, expertise, experts, God Hypothesis, isolation, lockdown, Marxism, materialism, Return of the God Hypothesis, riots, secularism, Soviet Union, synagogues, The Matrix, totalitarianism, tyranny, United States, unvaccinated}

Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

3}

The insight is timely, given the two-year anniversary of lockdowns that we’ve recently observed. Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, China, CRISPR, embryo, genes, genetic testing, germline, human beings, Humanize, ID the Future, Nature (journal), podcast, scientists, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith on Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

1}

Using the breakthrough technology known as CRISPR, scientists are not only altering the genes of a given creature. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, evolution, Francesco Redi, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), William Harvey}

Considering “Abiogenesis,” an Imaginary Term in Science

_{Neil Thomas
April 11, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

5}

In the 17th century, medical pioneer Sir William Harvey and Italian scientist Francesco Redi both proved the untenability of spontaneous generation. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biosignatures, exoplanets, Golden Fleece Award, intelligent life, Kepler mission, New Mexico, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Seth Shostak, SETI, SETI Institute, technosignatures, William Proxmire}

SETI Activists Still Don’t Get the Irony

_{David Coppedge
April 11, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

Most SETI advocates stringently oppose intelligent design even as they rely on it. Read More ›

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Date
April 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, evolution, fossil record, human origins, humans, ID the Future, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

_{Science and Culture
April 10, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

1}

Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Bernard de Fontenelle, Charles Darwin, complexification, David Stove, evolution, gemmules, heredity, John Gray, meme, Percival Lowell, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Dawkinsian Mythology

_{Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›