Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, A New Birth of Freedom, Adam Smith, Africans, Alexander H. Stephens, alt-right, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Cornerstone Speech, Darwinian evolution, dreamscape, eugenics, Galileo Galilei, genocide, Harry Jaffa, Human Zoos, John West, March for Science, NASCAR, Nextdoor, Oregon, Portland, Psalms, Racism, religion, Seattle, Southerners, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Descent of Man, vacation homes, William Harvey}

Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, cells, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, Jeremy England, podcast, RNA world}

The Origin of Life Was an Engineering Marvel

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Brian Miller and Eric Anderson discuss Jeremy England’s origin-of-life ideas and the RNA World hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, alt-right, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, churches, Darwinism, evolutionists, Francis Scott Key, ID the Future, Mike Keas, No Lives Matter, Peter Singer, podcast, pseudoscience, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Shrewsbury, statues, Ulysses Grant, V.I. Lenin, vandals, white nationalists}

Darwinism and “No Lives Matter”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

While most evolutionists today reject scientific racism, with exceptions like James Watson — they have no necessary reason for doing so. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Curiosity rover, Darwinism, Enceladus, Francesco Redi, Jonathan Bartlett, Jonathan Lunine, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Louis Pasteur, maggots, Mars, methane, microbes, Mind Matters, New Scientist, phosphine, probabilistic resources, The Conversation, University of Arizona, University of Washington, Venus}

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2021

Physical Sciences

8}

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Book of Job, communication, conversation, creation, Crossway, dialogue, eagle, evolutionary theory, Günter Bechly, hawk, intelligent design, misrepresentation, paleontologists, rhetoric, rhetorical strategies, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), Undeniable (book), Washington University}

Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

_{Douglas Axe
July 22, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, faith, origins, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sean McDowell, Stephen Meyer}

How Stephen Meyer Became Stephen Meyer

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2021

Faith & Science

1}

Steve Meyer is on now talking with Sean McDowell about origins: not biological origins but his own. Fascinating and self-revelatory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, African Savannah, brain, cathedrals, cognitive abilities, DNA, East Africa, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic mutations, gods, Homo sapiens, human beings, human rights, justice, laws, money, nations, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Yuval Noah Harari}

In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostics, apologetics, atheism, Ben Shapiro, Brian Keating, Charles Murray, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, civilization, Darwinian theory, Dennis Prager, Douglas Murray, James Croft, Jews, John West, Jordan Peterson, Judaism, Justin Brierley, Michael Medved, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Scruton, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Unbelievable, William Lane Craig}

Meet the New New Atheists, Not Like the Old New Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2021

Faith & Science

4}

These atheists are finding the “Darwinian tower” less to their liking, and are laying down their bow and arrow. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Afghan Hound, Black Lives Matter, Border Collie, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Christians, civil rights, creativity, Darwinists, dominance, elk, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Oregon, Ota Benga, pastors, Portland, priests, protesters, pseudoscience, racial hierarchy, Racism, scientific racism, Scripture, statues, Wesley Smith}

Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Read More ›

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Date
July 21, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, clathrin, cytoplasm, Darwinian evolution, endocytosis, messenger RNA, microtubule, mitochondria, mRNA, Nature (journal), nucleus, reactive oxygen species, ribosomes, spliceosome, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, University of Michigan}

Molecular Machine Safari

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2021

Intelligent Design

8}

Take a tour of molecular machines working in the cell and see what new things scientists have found out about them. Read More ›