Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, “Learning in War-Time”, Adolf Hitler, Anglo-Irish writers, anxiety, Belfast, bleach, Boxen, C.S. Lewis, Castlereagh Hills, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cherry blossoms, churches, coronavirus, Europe, fear, grocery stores, gyms, hand sanitizer, isolation, Letters of C.S. Lewis, Marion Wade Center, movie theaters, Nazis, Northern Ireland, pandemic, restaurants, rubbing alcohol, Seattle, The Weight of Glory, toilet paper, tuberculosis, University of Washington, W.H. Lewis, war, Wheaton College, World War I, World War II, worry}

#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

_{John G. West
December 27, 2020

Faith & Science

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Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, anti-science, complexity theory, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, Nature (journal), Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, scientists, skepticism, symbiosis, textbooks}

#7 Story of 2020: Darwin Is on the Roof

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution

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Books by Behe, and other ID theorists doing an independent of audit of evolutionary thinking, find devastating faults in the theory. Read More ›

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Author
Kelley J. Unger

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Foresight (book), Irreducible Complexity, Marcos Eberlin, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, purpose, Summer Seminars, United Kingdom, YouTube videos}

Reuben’s Story — A Light in Troubled Times

_{Kelley J. Unger
December 25, 2020

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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"Methodological naturalism is a very depressing thing to be told is the truth," says an 18-year-old correspondent. "Your work may have saved my life." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Alexander Flemming, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, fireman, Girolamo Fracastoro, Harvard University, hazmat suit, housekeepers, ICU, Ignaz Semmelweis, John Snow, Jonas Salk, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, neurosurgeon, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Purell, Robert Koch, Rodney Stark, Shop Rite, Spencer Wells, stock boys, Thomas Sydenham, unintelligent processes}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
December 25, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abortion, adult home care, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, DSHS, friendship, government aid, hematoma, homeless shelter, hospital, immigrants, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, Section 8, subsidized housing, trust, WIC}

#9 Story of 2020: An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
December 24, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science

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I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, Communications Earth & Environment, Design of Life, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Freshwater, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, trace elements, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science and Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Lord Acton, Oliver Cromwell, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

_{Michael Flannery
December 23, 2020

Evolution

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It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, binoculars, creation, Evolution News, heavens, Hubble Space Telescope, intelligent design, NASA, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Return of the God Hypothesis, stars, Stephen Meyer, telescopes}

The Heavens Declare: Looking Forward to 2021

_{David Klinghoffer
December 22, 2020

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Center for Science and Culture, college campuses, curator, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, employers, Evolution News, Facebook, Germany, intelligent design, Kimberella, paleontology, scholarship, scientists, social media, State Museum of Natural History, students, Stuttgart, truth, Twitter, underground, wokeness}

Günter Bechly: Welcome to the Underground

_{David Klinghoffer
December 22, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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It’s become suffocating on the surface, so truth seeks shelter. The experience of being canceled is no longer limited to speakers on college campuses. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, blood clotting, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mousetrap, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
December 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Read More ›