Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ACLU, atheism, biological origins, cult, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Gelernter, free speech, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, narrative, peer-reviewed literature, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Scott Adams, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, University of Chicago, Why Evolution Is True}

Inside the Evolution Silo — Darwinism as a Cult

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Evolution, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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A major news story can break outside of the silo but, because it goes against the narrative, those in the silo will never hear about it. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Apple iPhones, Big Bang, children, computers, consciousness, designer, earth, Energy, evolution, fire, Fire-Maker, First Cause, intelligent design, materialists, matter, metals, Michael Denton, multiverse, Paul Davies, physical laws, Robin Collins, science fiction, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Problems of Physics, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, creation, Daniel Reeves, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, DNA, elements, Eric Anderson, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, fitness, Harvard University, intelligent design, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Michael Denton, Paris, Periodic Table, Privileged Species, Signature in the Cell, textbooks, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of the Cell, webinar, Zoom}

Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms

_{David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us. Read More ›

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Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular functions, chemical bonds, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Goldilocks Zone, ID the Future, Michael Denton}

Finely Tuned Chemistry and ATP Synthase

_{Science and Culture
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren’t just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren’t just so for others. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

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Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Against the Tide, Albert Einstein, atheism, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Cornell University, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, debates, Evolution News, experts, faith, German, Harvard University, john lennox, Martin Rees, mathematician, Oxford University, prestige, Richard Dawkins, science, scientists, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Yale University}

Against the Tide: When Scientists Stray from Science

_{David Klinghoffer
October 27, 2020

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Lennox: "Stephen Hawking was a brilliant mathematician and a genius. But he had no idea about philosophy." Read More ›

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Author
Tom Gilson

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, adaptation, babies, beauty, chlorophyll, colors, evolution, experience, leaves, subjectivity, winter}

The Glorious, Intentional Gift of Autumn Beauty

_{Tom Gilson
October 27, 2020

Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Reproductive Science

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Is there something adaptive to the enjoyment of colors in such a wild mix; and in our enjoying it at one particular time of the year? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, career destruction, censors, censorship, creator, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, intelligent design, John Stonestreet, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, molecular machines, Ola Hössjer, reputation, Return of the God Hypothesis, specified complexity, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, water, William A. Dembski}

Is Fine-Tuning “More Extreme” in Biology or Cosmology?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 26, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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As authors Thorvaldsen and Hössjer say, “Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 26, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Aryans, creationists, editors, Evolution News, Free Science, Humanize, intelligent design, Jews, Journal of Theoretical Biology, journals, medical ethics, Nature (journal), Nazi Germany, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), scientific debate, scientific method, soft totalitarianism, Stephen Meyer, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Wesley Smith, yellow star}

Ethicist Protests Politicized Science — Alas, That Horse Left the Barn Long Ago

_{David Klinghoffer
October 26, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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It is all about the costs of getting on the wrong side of the power structure. To say that this “chills” debate about scientific issues is an understatement. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Answers in Genesis, Communism, creationism, Darwinism, disclaimer, Discovery Institute, discrimination, Due Process Clause, Elsevier, Fourteenth Amendment, free speech, Institute for Creation Research, intelligent design, Jews, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Martin Gaskell, Medieval Europe, Nature (journal), Nazi Germany, Neo-Darwinism, Norway, peer-reviewed literature, Science (journal), scientific journals, Soviet Union, Stockholm University, Supreme Court, Sweden, University of Kentucky, University of Tromsø, yellow star}

Intelligent Design’s Yellow Star: Journal’s Disclaimer Refutes a Common Criticism of ID

_{Casey Luskin
October 26, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Critics of intelligent design (ID) often lecture ID proponents that they are free to submit their work to any scientific journal. Read More ›