Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 12, 2020

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "Science Says", Against the Tide, atheism, C.S. Lewis, culture, Darwinists, doubt, faith, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, materialists, mathematician, Oxford University, science, scientists, social media}

Oxford’s John Lennox: Battle Cry of the “Believing Scientist”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2020

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Many religiously affiliated people, including clergy, would prefer to let their faith float free of challenging questions about objective evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 12, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Darwin's Doubt, Design Inference, DNA, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, logical fallacies, molecular motors, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Ola Hössjer, protein complexes, rarity, Simon Conway Morris, specification, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Kauffman}

Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

_{Casey Luskin
October 12, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Read More ›

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Date
October 11, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, coincidences, intelligent design, life, Michael Denton, oxygen, photosynthesis, The Miracle of the Cell, visible light, water}

Remarkable Coincidences in Photosynthesis Shout “Intelligent Design”

_{Science and Culture
October 11, 2020

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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From the specific energy of visible light to the unique properties of water, this degree of fine-tuning for life has a clear message. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, computers, Darwinism, evolutionary biology, genes, ID the Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, mechanistic view, mind, purpose, Purpose and Design, Robert Crowther, State University of New York, SUNY}

Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

_{Science and Culture
October 10, 2020

Biology, Evolution

1}

Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Animal Minds (series), BBC Earth, chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Attenborough, Denyse O'Leary, Galileo Affair, Günter Bechly, lemurs, Mind Matters, nature, primates, ravens}

From Birds and Lemurs, Lessons About Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2020

Ecology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Self-degradation, like the “Galileo legend,” is a vital fuel from Darwinism. Plus, "Another failed prediction" of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Marcus, Akira Sasaki, corruption, Denise Kirschner, disclaimer, editors, Elsevier, Evolution News, incompetence, intelligent design, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, keywords, Mark Chaplain, Ola Hössjer, publisher, reputations, Retraction Watch, science journals, scientists, Steinar Thorvaldsen}

Corruption Watch: Biology Journal Blames the Innocent, Turns ID Scientists into Fall Guys

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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For those who are always lecturing us about “Follow the science” and “Believe the scientists,” this episode should be an eye opener. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 8, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Akira Sasaki, Biological Information: New Perspectives, censorship, defining terms, Del Ratzsch, Denise Kirschner, dependency graph, Elsevier, explanatory filter, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, keywords, macroevolution, Mark Chaplain, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), peer-reviewed, publishers, search engines, specified complexity, statistical methods, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Really? Editors Claim They Were “Unaware” of Article’s Intelligent Design Connections

_{Casey Luskin
October 8, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The implication is that the editors — Denise Kirschner, Mark Chaplain, and Akira Sasaki — did not realize the article was about intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, biophysics, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), intelligent design, Jeremy England, respect, scientists, U.C. Santa Barbara}

Helen Hansma: Round Two on the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
October 8, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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My interlocutor was Helen Hansma who pioneered the mica-sheet origin-of-life model. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anti-science, Christianity, conflict myth, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, science and religion, Seattle, superstition, tradition}

Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2020

Faith & Science, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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How did science, of all things, come to be a vehicle for virtue signaling, a virtual religion, with insiders and outsiders, the damned and the saved? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anger, animals, anthropologists, anxiety, Darwinism, Denyse O'Leary, disease, evolution, evolutionary biologists, grief, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, narrative gloss, pain, Philip Skell, Psyche, The Scientist}

The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 7, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›