Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alchemy, chemical energy, chemical reactions, DNA, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), information, Jeremy England, mica sheets, molecular engines, natural selection, perpetual motion machine, physicists, proteins, RNA, self-replication, thermodynamics, UC Santa Barbara}

Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

_{Brian Miller
November 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›

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Date
November 1, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Against the Tide, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, debates, Discovery Institute, documentary, family, ID the Future, john lennox, mathematician, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, podcast, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Sold Out, Stephen Meyer, theaters}

Against the Tide: John Lennox on the New Atheism

_{Science and Culture
November 1, 2020

Faith & Science

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The movie will be in theaters for three nights only in November, and will feature a conversation between Dr. Lennox and Stephen Meyer following the screening. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, conflict, culture, David Lloyd, episodes, Guy Fawkes, holidays, isolation, masks, science, Science Uprising, spiders, tyranny, worry}

Science Uprising — In the Year of the Mask

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The series is aimed at reaching Generation Z. And wow, not least in this year of isolation, worry, and conflict, do young people need it! Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, COVID-19, Halloween, holidays, intelligent design, masks, natural design, social distancing, spiders, webs}

Don’t Be Frightened! It’s Just a Spider

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

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It's going to be a different kind of Halloween. Socially distant trick-or-treating? And somehow masks seems less festive in 2020. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alysson Muotri, autism, babies, biotechnology, brain cells, Center on Human Exceptionalism, consciousness, COVID-19, elections, family, genetic engineering, human brain, human embryos, Humanize, Nature (journal), neuroscientists, schizophrenia, scientists, UC San Diego}

Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2020

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Against the Tide, atheism, biologists, debate, events, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, mathematician, Oxford University, Richard Dawkins, Seattle, Sold Out, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, theaters, theists}

Against the Tide: Now Three Nights in November!

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2020

Faith & Science

2}

The “God Delusion” debate between dueling Oxford scholars — biologist Richard Dawkins and mathematician John Lennox was a Sold Out show, and no wonder. Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, compassion, COVID, Darwinists, David Sloan Wilson, disgust, Herbert Spencer, human nature, materialists, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, pandemic, PNAS, political correctness, Sam Harris, SARS-CoV-2, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, theism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses}

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2020

Evolution

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A team of known materialistic Darwinists promotes their helpfulness in solving the pandemic, but to do so, they steal values from outside their toolkit. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, brain chemistry, chewing, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, father, intellectual seizures, materialism, medical literature, mental function, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, morality, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Sabbath, smell, soul, walking, Wilder Penfield}

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›

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Author
Tom Gilson

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Life Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, angiosperms, beauty, California, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Europe, evolutionists, false dichotomy, flowering plants, forests, Homo sapiens, homogeneity, humans, intelligent design, logical fallacies, mountains, Nathan Lents, North America, Orange County, physiology, sarcasm, Sudoku, theism, Tom Gilson, Twitter}

On Fall Foliage, Nathan Lents Comes Up Short

_{Tom Gilson
October 29, 2020

Life Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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There is nothing in the word “gift” that entails its having been given identically to all persons at all times. That’s not hard, actually. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Against the Tide, cancel culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Communism, debate, history, intellectuals, Iron Curtain, john lennox, Latin, Marxism, naturalism, Oxford University, pagans, Richard Dawkins, tolerance, universities}

Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Bioethics

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"Once you lose the kind of stabilizing influence of rational thought and respect," says John Lennox, "then you can end up with violence, as we have seen." Read More ›