Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam Hochschild, colonialism, Congo, Darwinism, documentary, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker, Human Zoos, John Hawks, John West, King Leopold, Philippines, Royal Museum for Central Africa, St. Louis, Summer White House, Tervuren, U.S. Presidents, Walker’s Point, World's Fair}

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Education
Tagged
, biological information, biologists, Cambridge University, chemical evolution, Dallas, Dean Kenyon, DiscoveryU, DNA, intelligent design, San Francisco State University, self-organization, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Education

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Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Design Inference, human origins, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Neanderthals, ochre, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Spain, water}

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, Science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
August 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

5}

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, building blocks, Center for Science and Culture, cheating, Discovery Institute, first cell, geologists, homology, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Long Story Short, materialists, physicists, popular media, premiere, researchers, scientists, YouTube videos}

New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell. Read More ›

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Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Eric Anderson, hospitals, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Science, universities}

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

_{Science and Culture
August 10, 2021

Faith & Science

1}

Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, cognition, computer scientists, consciousness, Darwinism, David Gelernter, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Behe, mind, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, philosophers, Princeton University, Public Discourse, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Nagel}

Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Geology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, earthquakes, evolution, First Cause, floods, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, James Croft, mind, naturalism, omnipotence, Prime Mover, programming, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, uniformitarianism}

Meyer vs. Croft: Vying for the Lyellian Mantle

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 9, 2021

Biology, Faith & Science, Geology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

Stephen Meyer has aligned himself in spirit with the geologist Charles Lyell, who explained geological features “by reference to causes now in operation." Read More ›

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Date
August 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Amazon Prime, And Still We Rise, Angela King, apes, Bronx Zoo, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, Discovery Institute, documentary, eugenics, forced sterilization, Human Zoos, humans, John West, missing links, Monkey House, New York City, Ota Benga, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Saartjie Baartman, Social Darwinism, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Wayne State University}

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

_{Science and Culture
August 8, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Read More ›