Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Science Education
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, biology teachers, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, critical thinking, Discovery Institute, education, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Nature (journal), podcast, Robert Crowther, Sarah Chaffee, Science Education Policy, strengths and weaknesses, survey}

Censors Claim Teachers “Advocate Evolution” More Now Than in 2007 — Don’t Believe It

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2020

Science Education

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How likely are biology teachers with doubts about Darwinism to participate in a survey by an organization instrumental in attacking Darwin-doubting teachers? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Aryan race, atomization, Bolsheviks, China, COVID-19, Dachau, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, looting, Maoists, movement, natural law, natural selection, Nazis, pandemic, paralysis, rioting, Russia, terror, The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism, unpredictability, vandalism}

Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics

_{Michael Egnor
July 20, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Bernard Kettlewell, Biston betularia, Brian K. Hall, butterflies, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fruit flies, gene regulation, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Judith Hooper, junk DNA, Michael Majerus, moths, Of Moths and Men, Peter Grant, pharyngeal arches, Rosemary Grant, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tree trunks, wings, Zombie Science (book)}

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

_{Robert Shedinger
July 20, 2020

Evolution

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From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Boeing 747, Charles Darwin, Curiosity rover, fire, Fire-Maker series, galaxies, Mars, nano-technology, Stone Age}

Humans Were Designed to Harness Fire

_{Michael Denton
July 20, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Physical Sciences

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Of all the discoveries made on mankind’s long march to civilization, there was one primal discovery that made the realization of all else possible. Read More ›

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Date
July 19, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
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, Copernican demotion, Copernican system, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, history, humanity, Jay Richards, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, National Geographic, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicolaus Copernicus, scientific revolution}

Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos

_{Science and Culture
July 19, 2020

Physical Sciences

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In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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, artificial general intelligence, computer science, computer simulations, deep learning, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, John Koza, Neural Networks, neuroevolution, software, software engineering}

Neuroevolution Methods Show Significant Success

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 18, 2020

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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The Darwinian algorithm works in theory, but does not work in practice, when applied in the domain of software production. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, Achilles heel, Alan Turing, algorithms, computer science, Darwinian algorithm, early Earth, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, fitness functions, Neural Networks, predictions, programmers, software}

Some Possible Reasons for the Limited Success of Evolutionary Algorithms

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 17, 2020

Environment & Climate, Evolution

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It is theoretically possible that out of thousands of scientists working on evolutionary computation, all failed to correctly implement the Darwinian algorithm. Read More ›

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, consciousness, human mind, John Polkinghorne, Mind and Cosmos, naturalism, rationality, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

_{John Lennox
July 17, 2020

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

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Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, history, intelligent design, pandemic, viruses}

COVID-19 and Biochemical Design

_{Michael Behe
July 17, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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On a webinar today, I will discuss viruses in historical time, their basic biochemical design, where they came from, and what they might evolve into. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, atheism, Bari Weiss, bullying, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Darwinism, designers, Discovery Institute Press, editors, heroes, ideology, integrity, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, media, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, pandemic, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, scientists, Sean Carroll, The Hill, The Miracle of the Cell, Twitter, writers}

Politicized Science Can Be Deadly; Time to Restore Integrity

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Imagine there was a pandemic and people found themselves greeting statements from scientists, conveyed by the media, with increasing jaded skepticism. Read More ›