Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, Darwin-skeptics, Discovering Intelligent Design, evolution, fossil record, horses, Icons of Evolution, Khan Academy, macroevolution, straw man, YouTube videos}

Khan Academy “Evidence for Evolution” Video Pushes the Fake Fossil Horses Series

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February 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

7}

The video draws arrows from one species of fossil horses to the next and says “there is a constant change and we can see it directly through the fossil record.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Alfred Russel Wallace, Americas, Australia, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, genocide, imperialism, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, New Zealand, racial extermination, Racism, Social Darwinism}

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart
February 9, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›

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Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor College of Medicine, Boston University, Cell (journal), cytoplasm, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, nuclear envelope, nuclear pore complex, nucleus, Rockefeller University, super-resolution microscopy, therapeutics, UC San Diego, Unlocking the Mystery of Life}

Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus

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February 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, circular reasoning, common ancestry, Dogs, evolution, Explore Evolution, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, limbs, students, teachers, vertebrates, whales}

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

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February 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, creation, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theistic evolution, utilitarianism}

Darwin’s Rhetorical Foundation of Sand: Theological Utilitarianism

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February 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Evolutionary theory, argued in the way that Darwin and many of his followers argue the case, is fundamentally theology-based. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, creator, evolution, evolutionists, frigate-bird, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, theology, upland goose, Why Evolution Is True}

Why the Main Argument Against Intelligent Design Is False

_{Cornelius Hunter
February 7, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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As Darwin argued, “we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds." Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Africans, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Aryans, biologists, Christianity, Europe, evolution, Germans, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Nordic race, race, Racism, religion, scientific racism, Slavs, Whoopi Goldberg}

Let’s Learn from Whoopi Goldberg’s Misunderstanding about the History of Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 7, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Leading scientists were complicit in helping formulate and justify Hitler’s worldview. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, barbarians, culture, Darwin Day in America, Politics, science, scientism, scientocracy, Social Darwinism, technocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Magician's Twin, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State}

The Terrible Bargain: Prophetic Words from C. S. Lewis on Scientocracy

_{John G. West
February 7, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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If there is one thing I could get people to read to understand our situation, it would be the essay “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” by C. S. Lewis. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, common ancestry, embryology, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fraud, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, ontogeny, phylogeny, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Stream, vertebrate embryos, YouTube videos}

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

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February 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Christianity, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Epicurus, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, logical positivism, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Orthodox Christians, podcast, rationalists, Richard Dawkins, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

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February 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial. Read More ›