Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 11, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Copernican Revolution, cosmic rays, earth, evolution, gravitational field, heliocentric model, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), humankind, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton}

The Stars Above Us

_{Neil Thomas
November 11, 2021

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, William Harvey}

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021

Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology

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Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), algorithms, Ann Gauger, Big Tech, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin’s Cancel Culture, Darwinians, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, free speech, George Orwell, Günter Bechly, human origins, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, media, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Ministry of Truth, peer-reviewed literature, pornography, scholars, Science Uprising, scientists, social media, Stephen Meyer, telescreen, thoughtcrime}

The Proles, the Party, and a Science Uprising

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Our tech rulers are quite the egalitarians. Sure, they believe that cheap entertainments for all have an important role. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Bible, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, East Africa, evolution, FOXP2, Francis Collins, genes, Genetics (journal), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human intelligence, human origins, Ian Tattersall, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), integration, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, mutations, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Robin Williams, Sapiens (book), science and religion, The Language of God, Time Magazine, William Lane Craig, Yuval Noah Harari}

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
November 10, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ancient Near East, biblical flood, Christianity, Denisovans, dinosaurs, Evolution News, Exodus, Genesis, Gospels, Hebrew, hominids, Homo sapiens, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Mesopotamia, Middle East, mytho-history, Neanderthals, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Satan, Scripture, Stephen Jay Gould, William Laine Craig, Young Earth Creationists}

Is Genesis “Mytho-History”? As a Guide to Scripture, William Lane Craig’s Book Falls Short

_{Casey Luskin
November 9, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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As an old earther, I was dismayed by Craig’s failure to engage with common old earth interpretations of Genesis. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmos, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, God Hypothesis, intelligent agents, intelligent design, multiverse theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Being, theism, universe}

Stephen Meyer: Let’s Compare Intelligent Design and Cosmic Fine-Tuning with the Multiverse Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
November 9, 2021

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

3}

Meyer neatly explains why the multiverse fails, in two respects, precisely where the inference to theism succeeds. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behavior, animal kingdom, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Jonathan Swift, monarch butterfly, On the Origin of Species, spider silk, spiders, termites, wasps}

Genius in Lilliput

_{Eric Cassell
November 9, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Complex programmed behaviors are evident throughout the animal kingdom, but in these pages the focus will primarily be on less advanced animals. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Sociology
Tagged
, atheism, Christ, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionists, faith, Genesis, gnosticism, Houston, Islam, Nobel laureates, Science, Scripture, University of Toronto}

What Are Science and Faith — And Are They Compatible?

_{William A. Dembski
November 9, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Sociology

4}

Atheists might say that if Christian scientists understood the full implications of science, they would see that their Christian faith is unsustainable. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 8, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecines, BioLogos, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, junk DNA, mytho-history, Oxford University Press, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), William Lane Craig, Young Earth Creationists}

Coming Attraction: My Review of William Lane Craig’s In Quest of the Historical Adam

_{Casey Luskin
November 8, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Evangelical Christians who continue to embrace evolutionary ideas in the absence of confirming evidence continue to bet on the wrong horse. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 8, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, BGV, Big Bang, Big Think, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, causality, Ethan Siegel, Kalam cosmological argument, photon, quantum mechanics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Hawking, universe}

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

_{Brian Miller
November 8, 2021

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning. Read More ›