Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, body, brain, breathing, DNA, free will, intellect, intelligence, IQ, memory, mind, nervous system, philosophers, rational powers, soul, Thomas Aquinas, twin studies, vegetative powers, vision}

If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

_{Michael Egnor
April 28, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apostasy, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, John C. Eccles, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, racial hygiene, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

5}

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, documentary, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Kutter Callaway, media, natural selection, paradigm, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project}

New Trailer Out Now — The Paradigm Project

_{David Klinghoffer
April 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“This is some pretty mind-blowing stuff,” as host Kutter Callaway says. “So why aren’t we hearing this side of the story on our favorite nature show?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheism, creator, intelligent design, materialists, mechanistic view, Neil deGrasse Tyson, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theism, universe, University of Cambridge}

Isaac Newton — Proto-Intelligent Design Advocate

_{David Klinghoffer
April 27, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

2}

Some atheists, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, have miscast Newton as a mechanist and a materialist, in their own image. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Applied Eugenics, Darwin Industry, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, assumptions, axioms, bubbles, Charles Darwin, incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel, Peter Atkins, scientific materialism, scientism, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, William Lane Craig}

How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 26, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

4}

There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, biological origins, Christianity, depression, DNA, documentaries, Douglas Axe, erosion, inspiration, intelligent design, isolation, Jonathan Wells, Kutter Callaway, lockdown, paradigm, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, suicide rate, The Paradigm Project, theism}

The Paradigm Project — Intelligent Design in a New Light

_{David Klinghoffer
April 26, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

Douglas Axe urges scientists to admit there are things they don’t understand about life's origins, much as there are things in Scripture we can’t grasp. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, racial extermination, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 25, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Brookings Institution, ELIZA program, Erik Larson, Joseph Weizenbaum, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Terrific Video Interview with Erik Larson

_{William A. Dembski
April 25, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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It was done before his book was released and gives a succinct summary of the book. It’s short. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 24, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abduction, babies, Brookings Institution, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object}

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

_{William A. Dembski
April 24, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›