Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
May 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, convergent evolution, evolution, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, MIT, non-random evolution, podcast}

Lee Spetner on Convergent and Non-Random Evolution

_{Science and Culture
May 31, 2020

Evolution

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Dr. Spetner challenges the idea of convergent evolution and explains his non-random evolutionary hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 31, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, coronavirus, COVID-19, lockdown, masks, medicine, Minneapolis, New York City, PJ Media, riots, virology}

Virology Keeps Evolving

_{Michael Egnor
May 31, 2020

Medicine

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Government actions may be informed to a greater or lesser degree by science. Lesser seems to be the current trend. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, artificial intelligence, Center on Human Exceptionalism, China, COVID-19, Darwin Day in America, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, facial recognition, Falun Gong, Human Zoos, Humanize, humans, John West, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Egnor, quality of life, social credit, Steven J. Buri, The Biology of the Second Reich, transhumanism, triage, Uyghurs, Walter Bradley Center, Wesley Smith}

Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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One of the tragic trends in thinking about evolution has been to blur the distinction between humans and animals. History warns us not to regard this lightly. Read More ›

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Date
May 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, biologists, Biomimetics, biomimicry, butterfly wings, China, coral, Duke University, engineers, fish scales, geckos, Georgia Tech, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, leaf, leaves, materials science, nanowires, New Scientist, polymers, telescopes}

Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It

_{Science and Culture
May 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 28, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, BioEssays, biologists, bullies, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, cosmos, Darwinism, Darwinists, Dave Speijer, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, ideology, Inquisition, intelligent design, John Zmirak, nihilism, The Stream, Twitter, worldview}

“Nobody Expects the Darwinist Inquisition”? I Do

_{David Klinghoffer
May 28, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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It’s an ominous sight to observe the two waves approaching each other. On one side is an intensifying drive to police social media. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, “consensus science”, anti-intellectualism, Big Bang, BioEssays, CDC, censorship, Centers for Disease Control, China, climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, incompetence, Jonathan Wells, masks, mind-body dualism, Panda's Thumb, pandemic, science denial, scientists, Steven Novella, surfaces, Washington Post, World Health Organization, Yale University}

What Scientists Know

_{Michael Egnor
May 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Our scientific elites insist that the “scientific consensus” be accepted without question. Read More ›

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Date
May 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, 3D printing, Big Bang, Cambrian Explosion, cells, Charles Darwin, Eric H. Anderson, evolution, Evolution & Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, purple unicorn, Richard Dawkins}

Evolving a Self-Replicating Molecule Is a “Purple Unicorn”

_{Science and Culture
May 27, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Eric H. Anderson tells of Richard Dawkins’s glib assurances that the mystery of the origin of life is one not far from being solved. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, biologists, brain power, censorship, complex and specified information, CSI, Dave Speijer, Discovering Intelligent Design, Europeans, Evolution News, evolutionary scientists, Federal Government, government, intelligence, intelligent design, Kevin Laland, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, males, Michael Behe, National Center for Scientific Research, Neo-Darwinism, Royal Society, sex, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Design Revolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, William A. Dembski}

Scientist Admits Biologists Are Obsessed with Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
May 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

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What do scientists spend more time thinking about — sex, or the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 26, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, black holes, censorship, Darwinists, David Mamet, free will, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, materialists, mind, morality, Nature, neuroscience, Richard Lewontin, Singularity, teleology}

Lewontin’s Confession and Mamet’s Principle

_{Michael Egnor
May 26, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The pretense not to know things is at the root of Darwinist/atheist/materialist ideology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert A. Alston

Date
May 26, 2020

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Fortunate Universe, Alexander Vilenkin, carbon, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmic microwave background radiation, Edwin Hubble, electromagnetism, existence, Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, Geraint Lewis, Goldilocks, golf ball, gravity, Kalam cosmological argument, Luke Barnes, Martin Rees, ping-pong ball, quantum cosmology, strong nuclear force, universe, weak nuclear force, William Lane Craig}

Book Excerpt: The Big Bang and the Fine-Tuned Universe

_{Robert A. Alston
May 26, 2020

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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What can we infer about the cause of the universe, about what brought it into being? Read More ›