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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 18, 2020

Categories
Biology
Medicine
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, __edited, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), binary, biological sexes, conception, Darwinian theory, gender, global warming, human life, Jeffrey Epstein, National Academy of Sciences, Nature (journal), New York Times, opinion, Scientific American, scientific journals, scientists, sex, Wall Street Journal}

Is Sex Binary?

_{Michael Egnor
February 18, 2020

Biology, Medicine

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The denial by mainstream scientists that sex is binary is of the same cloth as the denial that human life starts at conception and the denial that intelligent design is evident in living things. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, aphids, binoculars, birds, Brown University, Current Biology, entomology, Flight, flight control, hummingbirds, insects, intelligent design, London, moths, Nature (journal), ornithology, UCLA, Wright brothers}

Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Charles Darwin, Darwininan theory, Divine Foot, evolution, free will, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), intelligent design, Keith Stewart Thomson, macroevolution, microevolution, mind, Neal C. Gillespie, spirit, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William A. Dembski, Zombie Science (book)}

On Evolution, Can’t We All Just Get Along?

_{Jonathan Wells
February 17, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Lutheran theologian Ted Peters concludes that “a culture war is raging, to be sure. But, this is not a war between science and faith.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Ben Shapiro, climate change, coronavirus, First World War, future, Homo Deus, Human Nature (book), Incarnation, intellectuals, Ivy League, Jonathan Swift, Malcolm Muggeridge, Martin Luther King, Michael Aeschliman, Middle East, National Review, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, T.S. Eliot, The Better Angels of Our Nature}

Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 16, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy

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From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›

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Date
February 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, biosphere, body heat, Bridalveil Fall, carbon dioxide, circulatory system, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, nutrients, oxygen, rivers, rock, streams, The Wonder of Water, water, Yosemite}

Wonder of Water: Michael Denton at Bridalveil Fall

_{Science and Culture
February 15, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 14, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, A Brief History of Time, Anthropic Principle, atheism, divine, John Horgan, multiverse theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific American, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Sunday School}

In the “Mathematical Glory” of the Universe, Physicist Discovered the “Truly Divine”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 14, 2020

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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As it happens, these are all themes that are developed with great rigor and depth in Center for Science & Culture director Stephen Meyer’s next book. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 14, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, adults, bioethicists, children, doctors, family, gender, gender affirmation, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomy, medical interventions, medicine, moral panic, parental consent, parental rights, parenting, puberty, tattooing}

For Bioethicists, This Is “Neglectful” Parenting

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Consider: Children — no matter how “mature” — cannot buy cigarettes or give consent to being tattooed. Read More ›

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Date
February 14, 2020

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, 3D printing, Adam, Bible, Evolution News, Fermi’s Paradox, Israel, John von Neumann, Jordan, Judea, Levant, Masada, New Scientist, Palestine, Phoenix dactylifera, Qumran, robots, Roman Empire, Science Advances, seeds, self-replicating machine}

Fruitful Science: The Marvel of a Seed

_{Science and Culture
February 14, 2020

Life Sciences

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If engineers could make something like a seed, it would be absolutely phenomenal. Then, imagine getting the object to last for thousands of years and still work. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, application, biological complexity, Bruce Gordon, Daniel Reeves, deadline, engineers, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Iron Curtain, John West, mathematician, Michael Behe, origin of life, Paul Nelson, philosophers, physicians, physicists, professors, Research, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, tipping point, undergraduates, William A. Dembski}

“Safe to Question” — Another Graduate of Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Shares Her Story

_{David Klinghoffer
February 13, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Discovery Institute is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›