Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, human suffering, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, Society for Neuroscience, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cells, Center for Science and Culture, communication, critics, Discovery Institute, epigenetics, evolution, Galileo Galilei, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, life, Mount Everest, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Tom Woodward}

Intelligent Design’s “Galileo Figure”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tom Woodward calls Jonathan Wells a “Galileo figure” in intelligent design’s connection with epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), federal employees, Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dariusz Sagan, En Arche Foundation, evolution, Evolution News, Geoffrey Simmons, Grzegorz Malec, Grzegorz Słowik, intelligent design, International Seminar on Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Mind & Cosmos, Muslims, Polish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, The Design Inference, Thomas Nagel, translation, United States, University of Zielona Góra, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, YouTubers}

Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish: “A Game Changer”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Among our partners around the world, one of the finest, doing some of the most impressive work, is the En Arche Foundation in Poland. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Strikes Back, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Doubts About Darwin, Eugenie Scott, evolution, history, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, misinformation, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), podcast, textbooks, Tom Woodward}

Woodward: The Impact of Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tom Woodward has been ubiquitous in the unfolding culture war over intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academia, Casey Luskin, deadline, DNA, education, evolution, Garden of the Gods, geologists, graduate students, intelligent design, National Natural Landmark, protein evolution, researchers, rock formations, scholars, sciences, scientocracy, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teaching, truth, undergraduates, universal common descent, worldview, writing}

The CSC Summer Seminars: Once in a Lifetime, All Expenses Paid

_{Kate Kavanaugh
March 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Listening to scholars from various disciplines, and surrounded by the breathtaking scenery, I was awestruck by the truth and beauty of intelligent design. Read More ›

NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., speaks at the 2017 Rare Disease Day at NIH.

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, baby parts, censorship, COVID-19, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Evangelical Christians, federal funding, Francis Collins, government, Lincoln Memorial, mandates, National Institutes of Health, persecution, price gouging, progressives, racial discrimination, scientific research, secularists, Stand Up for Science, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, United States}

Francis Collins Stands Up for DEI, High Overhead, and Unethical Research?

_{John G. West
March 10, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

5}

At least Collins has made it harder to ignore his real agenda by appearing at this partisan political rally. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, genes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, logic, machines, podcast, Research, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution}

Richard Sternberg on the Information Beyond the Genome

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There’s “something phenomenal” going on inside the cell, says Dr. Sternberg. Probing and elucidating this mystery has been a focus of his research. Read More ›