Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Marshall, critics, Evolution News, evolutionary icons, filmmaker, intelligent design, Jackson Wheat, Jeremy England, Jonathan Wells, Long Story Short, music, Nota Bene, PZ Myers, whales, YouTube videos, Zombie Science (book)}

Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

7}

The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Afghan Hound, Black Lives Matter, Border Collie, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Christians, civil rights, creativity, Darwinists, dominance, elk, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Oregon, Ota Benga, pastors, Portland, priests, protesters, pseudoscience, racial hierarchy, Racism, scientific racism, Scripture, statues, Wesley Smith}

Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2020

Evolution

5}

What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Read More ›

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Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, blood, cardiovascular system, Charles Darwin, common descent, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, evolutionists, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, oxygen, red blood cells, Robert Waltzer}

In a Nutshell: Three Problems for Evolution

_{Science and Culture
July 6, 2020

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Biologist Robert Waltzer briefly details the engineering wonder that permits oxygen to be carried by the blood. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ann Reid, climate change, creationism, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, education, Eugenie Scott, evolution, intelligent design, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Nature (journal), public education, Sarah Chaffee, strengths and weaknesses, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

NCSE Underreports Teachers Who Support Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2020

Science Education

5}

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a non-profit group that has one primary mission: to censor minority scientific viewpoints on hot-button issues like evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Walcott, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran era, Evolution News, fossilization, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Kimberella, Metazoa, Mongolia, Namacalathus, paleontologists, Ross P. Anderson, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy, trilobites}

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
July 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, death rates, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic information, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, oxygen}

Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral

_{Science and Culture
July 5, 2020

Evolution

1}

Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2020

Intelligent Design

4}

Jefferson thought that there was scientific evidence for design in nature. In 1823, he insisted so in a letter to John Adams. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
July 3, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Ann Reid, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), nature, science education}

In Nature, NCSE Downplays Critical Analysis of Evolution

_{Sarah Chaffee
July 3, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

9}

The rosy picture the NCSE paints for advocates of pro-Darwin-only education is not quite accurate. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, circular reasoning, evolutionary processes, gene duplication, gene fission, gene fusion, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, natural processes, No Free Lunch theorems, β-lactamase}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes

_{Brian Miller
July 3, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The evolution of many complex traits, such as echo location in whales, requires the modification or creation of numerous proteins, physical structures, and neural connections. Read More ›