Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 16, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, aliens, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Miller, evolution, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, James Croft, James Tour, knowledge, Mars, Moon, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 16, 2021

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 15, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute}

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 15, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, evolution, fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

_{Science & Culture
August 14, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, aliens, debate, inference to the best explanation, James Croft, motives, philosophers, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William A. Dembski}

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 13, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

6}

I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, lawsuit, Minnesota, Nature, nature rights, pollution, water}

Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2021

Bioethics

3}

Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, cancel culture, Canceled Science, Eric Hedin, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Nobel Prize, The College Fix, universe, University of Chicago}

Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin

_{David Klinghoffer
August 12, 2021

Physical Sciences, Physics

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The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, 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
, colonialism, Darwinism, documentary, Human Zoos, John Hawks, John West, Philippines, St. Louis, U.S. Presidents}

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 ›