Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, Centre for Human Evolution Research, classroom, Cornell University, coronavirus, COVID-19, Facebook, Forbes, graduate school, kindergarten, Michael Poliakoff, universities, Zoom}

Online Education and the Evolution Debate

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 4, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Given recent developments in education, our mission has become more urgent than ever. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, attorneys, bioethics.net, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, Hastings Center Report, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, John Hardwig, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

The Bioethicist Pandemic

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, António Guterres, carbon emissions, coal, coronavirus, COVID-19, fossil fuels, fracking, global warming, globalism, natural gas, natural resources, New York Times, obesity, regulatory control, United Nations}

Time to Make Fossil Fuel Industries “Pay”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2020

Bioethics

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Authoritarian central planning never works and it wouldn’t “save the planet.” It would just make us all less prosperous and free. Read More ›

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Date
May 2, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, earth, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, planetary fine-tuning, podcast, Privileged Species, The Wonder of Water, water}

How Water’s Chemistry Helps Make Life on Earth Possible

_{Science and Culture
May 2, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Water possesses many unique properties that appear finely tuned to allow for life on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Dan Graur, ENCODE, Evolution News, fitness, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular evolution, mutations, predictions, Science (journal), University of Houston}

Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE

_{Casey Luskin
May 1, 2020

Intelligent Design

5}

Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
May 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Philosophy
Science Education
Tagged
, Christians, classroom, college, Darwinian evolution, Discovering Intelligent Design, Discovery Institute, education, Explore Evolution, high school, public education, science, textbooks}

How to Teach Evolution in a Public School — My Experience

_{Daniel Reeves
May 1, 2020

Biology, Philosophy, Science Education

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What did I do? Well, I introduced the course by holding a lengthy discussion about the difference between science and philosophy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, academia, accountability, Centers for Disease Control, China, Christians, COVID-19, doctors, epidemic, Europe, evolutionary biology, experts, government, Internet, medical profession, money, nurses, Orthodox Jews, pandemic, pilot fish, plague, science, Steven Novella, United States, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization, Wuhan, Yale University}

The Scramble to Redeem The S-Blob

_{Michael Egnor
April 30, 2020

Medicine

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The S-Blob is increasingly under justifiable scrutiny for the most catastrophic scientific fiasco of the 21st century. Its defenders are spewing chaff like there’s no tomorrow. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Cambridge University, celebrities, cosmic fine-tuning, Dan Brown, discount, DiscoveryU, intelligent design, mind, Neil deGrasse Tyson, online course, Stephen Meyer}

“MasterClass” with Stephen Meyer; 25 Percent Discount Ends at Midnight on April 30

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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What if you want to learn about something a little meatier — in fact about the ultimate questions that have troubled human beings from the inception of our species? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Ann Gauger, annus horribilis, Associated Press, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Bernard Wood, BIO-Complexity, Denisovans, Ethiopia, genetic diversity, gradualism, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Nature (journal), Ola Hössjer, paleoanthropology, population genetics, primates, punctuated equilibrium, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Magazine, Tim White}

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
April 30, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence. Read More ›

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Date
April 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Darwinism, documentary, evolution, human dignity, Human Zoos, ID the Future, John West, materialism, meaning, nature, podcast, scientific racism, Western culture}

John West: How Evolution Drained Meaning from Nature

_{Science and Culture
April 29, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Political Science

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if you are not among the 600,000+ people who have seen the multiple award-winning documentary Human Zoos, from Discovery Institute and Dr. West, find it here. Read More ›