Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
June 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, chance, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Daniel Reeves, Discovery Institute, functional information, ID the Future, molecular biology, necessity, specified complexity}

Information, Specified Complexity, and the Explanatory Filter

_{Science and Culture
June 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Far from being “Gee whiz, that’s complicated; it must be designed!” the theory of ID relies on well-defined concepts. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creator, Darwinists, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Harvard University, intelligent design, materialism, multiverse, organisms, Richard Lewontin, RNA, Stephen Jay Gould, The Chronicles of Narnia, The New York Review of Books}

Darwin’s Silver Chair

_{Jonathan Witt
June 10, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
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, abortion, adult home care, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, DSHS, friendship, government aid, hematoma, homeless shelter, hospital, immigrants, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, Section 8, subsidized housing, trust, WIC}

An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
June 9, 2020

Bioethics, Biology

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I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race, arranging them in a false hierarchy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2020

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
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, barbarism, conservatism, Darwinism, Immanuel Kant, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, modernity, Nominalism, Politics, realism}

The “Virus That Infected Philosophy”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2020

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Egnor explains, “Nominalism is the view that universals exist only as concepts in the mind, but not in reality.” Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, arachnids, Australia, cancer, dragline silk, horseshoe crabs, Jurgen Otto, mites, Nature Communications, scorpions, spiders, ticks, toxins, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, venom}

Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, earth, evolution, galaxy, heavy elements, life, planets, Research, solar system, sun, supernova, universe}

Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
June 7, 2020

Physical Sciences

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The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, alt-right, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, evolutionary theory, Human Zoos, John Derbyshire, Margaret Sanger, National Review, Neo-Darwinism, Racism, Rich Lowry, Robert Weissberg, scientific racism}

Whose Lives Matter? Darwinism as Soil for Scientific Racism

_{Science and Culture
June 6, 2020

Evolution

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Here is one more reason among many to take a hard, honest look at the growing scientific evidence against Darwinian theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, California, coronavirus, dehumanization, Humanize, medicine, New York State, oncologists, Oregon, oxymoron, pandemic, patients, Philadelphia Inquirer, Planned Parenthood, silver lining, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, Wesley Smith, Zoom}

Suicide by Zoom — Technology and Dehumanization

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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“We are always told that ‘strict guidelines will protect against abuse.’ It’s always been baloney.” Read More ›

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Date
June 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, An Uplifting Story, Ann Gauger, architecture, Biomimetics, Children of Light, dandelion, Darwin's Dilemma, geometry, hummingbird, ID the Future, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, Michael Denton, monarch butterfly, nature, Nature by Numbers, salmon, stars, sun, sunlight, The Privileged Planet}

Mathematics, Biology, and Awesome Wonder

_{Science and Culture
June 5, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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“Infinite Patterns” starts with a simple triangle and builds to the most magnificent representations of human and nature’s designs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, censorship, confirmation bias, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, evolution, Evolution News, human evolution, human origins, hydroxychloroquine, Latin America, LinkedIn, macroevolution, malaria, materialism, medicine, Michael Behe, microevolution, scientific culture, The Guardian, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization}

Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020

Medicine, Origin of Life

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It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers. Read More ›