Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Carl Sagan, Cosmos (series), documentary, Eric Anderson, Extrasolar Planets, ID the Future, Jay Richards, podcast, The Privileged Planet}

Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2021

Physical Sciences

1}

Jay Richards and Eric Anderson discuss the statement that Carl Sagan is perhaps most famous for. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, common descent, creationism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, divine image, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Homo erectus, human origins, humans, intelligent design, John Derbyshire, materialism, Neanderthals, Race Realism, Racism, savages, soul, subhumans, The Descent of Man, Walter Bradley Center}

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 3, 2021

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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The thread of racism in Darwinian thinking isn’t a chance thing, a mere byproduct of Charles Darwin’s personal views as a “man of his time.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, "created equal", animism, atheism, creator, David Klinghoffer, Declaration of Independence, elitism, emotivism, endowed by their creator, equality, evolution, evolutionary ethics, freedom, Homo sapiens, human rights, ideas have consequences, metaethics, monotheism, morality, myths, nihilism, noble lie, polytheism, religion, Sapiens review, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, subjectivism, Thomas Jefferson, truth, Voltaire, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2021

Ethics, Evolution, Political Science

9}

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Aeon, artificial intelligence, bioethicists, chemicals, farming, fruit flies, global warming, honey, insects, late-term abortion, oysters, peas, personhood, PETA, queen bee, radical environmentalists, sentience, silk}

Bioethicists: Insects Are People, Too!

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

4}

We have even seen one professor declare the supposed personhood of peas. Now, it is insects’ turn at being anthropomorphized. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 2, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Tagged
, abduction, Bayesian reasoning, computer code, David Berlinski, David Glass, deductive proof, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent agency, intelligent design, James Croft, likelihood ratio, philosophers, probability, probability bound, Return of the God Hypothesis, St. Louis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, syllogism, Unbelievable, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski}

Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 2, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy

7}

Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 2, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, agnostics, British Rationalist Association, Darwinism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute Press, England, evolutionary theory, German, magical thinking, Nazis, Neil Thomas, Oxford University, propaganda, rationalists, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, University of Durham}

In a New Book, Longtime Agnostic Dumps Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
August 2, 2021

Evolution

3}

Critics of intelligent design will have a hard time maligning Neil Thomas as a “creationist in a cheap tuxedo.” Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", academic freedom, intelligent design, Jim Madden, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Thomists}

Michael Behe: What About “Bad” Designs in Biology? And Other Questions

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

1}

Also in the mix, the issue of academic pressure to distance oneself from ID, even before those involved understand what the theory actually is. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Aristotle, autopoiesis, biological machines, co-option, epigenetics, intelligent design, Jim Madden, Kenneth Miller, meaning, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Systems Biology, Thomas Aquinas}

Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2021

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

1}

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
July 30, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, beauty, Carl Jung, Holocaust, hydrogen, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, john lennox, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, leprosy, Michael Shermer, myths, physicists, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sam Harris, scientific method, scientific revolution, scientism, Stephen Meyer}

Jordan Peterson Springs the Trap of Scientism

_{Elizabeth Whately
July 30, 2021

Faith & Science, Psychology

8}

There’s a gaping God-shaped hole in both Krauss and Peterson’s particular ways of spinning all this. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 30, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Bernard Carr, Cornell University, electromagnetic force, Harvard University, Higgs Boson, immigrants, Jews, meaning, MIT, multiverse, New York City, Nobel Prize, particle physics, physicists, Princeton University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theoretical physics, U.C. Berkeley, weak nuclear force}

Farewell to Steven Weinberg, Visionary Physicist Who Appealed to the Multiverse

_{Brian Miller
July 30, 2021

Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

3}

A sad note in Weinberg’s life was that his philosophical framework prevented him from seeing the design behind the physics he studied. Read More ›