Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, causal set cosmology, coincidence, earth, intelligent design, physicists, planet, theism, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Christopher McKay, Icarus, Mars, nutrients, perchlorates, soil, spacecraft, Viking mission}

Hope for Mars Life Is Dashed Again

_{David Coppedge
March 4, 2025

Planetology, Rare Earth

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Subsequent landers discovered a high concentration of perchlorates in the soil. Perchlorates are chlorinated salts, often used in fireworks. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Behe, biologists, California, Center for Science and Culture, China, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, ID the Future, Indiana University, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Monterey Bay, Pajaro Dunes, paleontologists, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Paul Nelson: My Adventures with Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this first half of the conversation, Dr. Nelson takes listeners back to a famous meeting in the history of the modern intelligent design movement. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abortion, Animal Algorithms, bacterial flagella, Biomimetics, cable bacteria, centrioles, Current Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, fetuses, Harvard University, intelligent design, Living Waters, mantis shrimp, materials science, Michael Behe, molecular machines, navigation, New Scientist, nose, PNAS, sea turtles, sophistication, springtails, super-resolution microscopy, University of North Carolina, University of Oldenburg}

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

_{David Coppedge
March 3, 2025

Applied Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, americans, authoritarianism, conformity, COVID-19, crime, drunk driving, Ethan Siegel, expertise, freedom, hospitals, hubris, humility, ideology, lockdowns, military, punishment, schools, security, Supreme Court, vaccine mandates, Vaccines}

Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.” Read More ›

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Date
March 2, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, astronauts, China, City Journal, Congress, David Klinghoffer, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Futurism, International Space Station, James B. Meigs, Mars, Moon, NASA, Popular Mechanics, research funding, Space Force, White House}

How NASA Might Change Soon

_{Science and Culture
March 2, 2025

Planetology, Science Reporting

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There has been much speculation in the tech media over the current government shakeup. Read More ›