Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 22, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, education, experimentation, human race, Men without Chests, Nature, propaganda, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Conditioners}

Why C. S. Lewis Wrote The Abolition of Man

_{James A. Herrick
August 22, 2020

Bioethics

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Lewis’s deep suspicion of modernist educational projects, subjectivism about morality, and progressive scientific planning animates these lectures. Read More ›

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Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, control systems, health, Howard Glicksman, human body, human life, hydration, ID the Future, medicine, physicians, podcast, Ray Bohlin, water}

Why Water Is Important for Human Life — A Doctor Explains

_{Science and Culture
August 21, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Biologist Ray Bohlin and physician Howard Glicksman discuss the body’s wondrous control systems for using water. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, autonomy, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, human nature, individual freedom, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Savulescu, liberalism, Oxford University, pharmaceuticals, posthumanism, Prozac, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman

_{James A. Herrick
August 21, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, friendship, government, gratitude, leadership, mentoring, policy, Politics, senators, Steven Buri, U.S. Senate}

Remembering Senator Slade Gorton

_{Bruce Chapman
August 20, 2020

Bioethics, Science Reporting

1}

Some will submit that his kind are gone, but I know that they are still around, because he helped get them there. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, bureaucrats, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, cities, coronavirus, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, evolution, fake news, freedom, humanity, idolatry, John West, masks, police, rabbis, scientism, scientocracy, shutdown, skepticism, suicide, violence, Washington State}

“In Fauci We Trust”? C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientific Authoritarianism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 20, 2020

Medicine

4}

Who would have predicted all that Americans have experienced in the past five months? Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Aristotle, books, Bracton College, C.S. Lewis, college, education, educators, Gaius, Homer, literature, Mark Studdock, Marketing, poets, progressive, Saint Augustine, Socrates, Tao, That Hideous Strength, theologians, Titius, Western civilization}

Concluding Thoughts on That Hideous Strength

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 20, 2020

Bioethics

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What was possible for Mark Studdock — the realization that much of contemporary civilization is built on lies — is still possible for any thoughtful person. Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, C. John Collins, C.S. Lewis, Covenant Theological Seminary, faith, John West, Science, scientism, Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength, The Magician's Twin}

Watch: C. S. Lewis on Demonic Scientific Planning

_{Science and Culture
August 19, 2020

Bioethics

1}

Here, Professor C. John Collins of Covenant Theological Seminary explains Lewis's critique of scientific planning. Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Sociology
Tagged
, beauty, Bracton College, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, England, Gaius, Greek, humanity, Jane Studdock, Latin, literature, Macrobes, Mark Studdock, N.I.C.E., scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, The Green Book, Titius, virtue}

The Education of Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 19, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Sociology

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Mark is lured away from his teaching position at Bracton College to become part of the massive research effort known as the N.I.C.E. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, amino acids, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, camera eye, Dan-Eric Nilsson, engineer, evolution, François Jacob, indoctrination, intelligent design, mollusks, mutations, natural selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tinkerer, vertebrates, Wistar Institute}

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Christianity, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, human beings, James Tour, life, pandemic, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2020

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As Stephen Meyer puts it here, “When life leaves, we don’t exactly know what’s left, but we know something left and it’s not just the physical.” Read More ›