Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

8}

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 ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 18, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, debunking, England, English, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gaius, Hinduism, literature, Men without Chests, pedagogy, Plato, propaganda, Saint Augustine, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sublime, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, The Green Book, Titius, values, Wheaton College}

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 18, 2020

Bioethics, Philosophy

17}

Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, chemical evolution, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, faith, intelligent design, James Tour, mind, physical processes, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour: Tonight, a Wide-Ranging and Personal Conversation

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2020

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Does life's origin reflect the activity of a mind, or do blind, purely physical processes alone serve as a fully satisfactory explanation? Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christmas Eve, education, Mark Studdock, modernity, N.I.C.E., That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Green Book}

The Education of Mark Studdock: A Sociologist Learns the Lessons of The Abolition of Man

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 17, 2020

Bioethics, Philosophy

4}

C.S. Lewis wrote: “This is a ‘tall story’ about devilry, though it has behind it a serious ‘point.’" Read More ›

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Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, abuse, C.S. Lewis, culture, dystopia, John West, literature, science, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Magician's Twin}

A Prophetic Warning Against the Abuse of Science

_{Science and Culture
August 17, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics

2}

Learn about the relevance of C.S. Lewis's dystopian novel for today in this video commemorating its 75th anniversary. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, batteries, carbon-based life, Charles Darwin, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness of nature, Freeman Dyson, intelligent beings, intelligent design, Kepler, magnets, Zeitgeist}

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

_{Michael Denton
August 17, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Deborah Blum, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Ghost Hunters, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, Jane Austen, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lord Acton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Sade, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Samuel Johnson, Social Darwinism, Stanley L. Jaki, Superman, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, The Odyssey, Thomas Carlyle, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

14}

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, oxygen, physicians, Ray Bohlin, tissues}

How the Body Meets Its Need for Oxygen — A Doctor Explains

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Finely tuned and exquisitely engineered, this system gave our ancestors enough oxygen not only to stay alive but to thrive in the face of grave challenges. Read More ›