Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, addiction, assisted suicide, cancer, despair, fentanyl, New York Times, prosperity, suicide}

Fewer “Deaths of Despair” Increase U.S. Life Expectancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 9, 2020

Bioethics

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Unstated, but perhaps a contributing factor, was the increasing prosperity we have enjoyed in country in recent years. Read More ›

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Date
February 8, 2020

Categories
Genetics
Life Sciences
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, __edited, coincidences, Energy, ID the Future, improbability, intelligent design, light, Michael Denton, oxygen, photosynthesis, podcast, water}

Michael Denton: Remarkable Coincidences in Photosynthesis

_{Science and Culture
February 8, 2020

Genetics, Life Sciences

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From the specific energy of visible light to the unique properties of water, this degree of improbability screams DESIGN. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, __edited, animals, biological novelty, cosmic fine-tuning, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, homology, human origins, humans, intelligent design, Long Story Short, molecular machines, natural selection, origin of the universe, PragerU, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, video}

Reader Seeks Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

_{David Klinghoffer
February 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Cutting to the heart of even a very big subject is possible and desirable and important. Here’s an attempt an answer. Read More ›

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Date
February 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, ACLU, animal phyla, bias, Cambrian Explosion, complex specified information, Darwin's Doubt, Dover trial, evolution, Evolution News, genetic information, goal-directedness, gold standard, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Judge John Jones, Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, peer review, scientific literature, Stephen Meyer, teleology, tweeting, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall

_{Science and Culture
February 7, 2020

Intelligent Design

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If you’re going to engage people on the topic of intelligent design publications, don’t let them force two false assumptions on you. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 6, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe, unguided processes}

Looking Forward to Darwin Day? Check Out the Trailer for Behe’s Secrets of the Cell

_{David Klinghoffer
February 6, 2020

Intelligent Design

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It was Dr. Behe’s insight that the view of evolution as driven by unguided processes alone can’t survive an up-close encounter with the “black box,” unknown to Darwin, the cell. Read More ›

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Date
February 6, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Biochemical Predestination, biological evolution, book reviews, Brian Miller, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, Douglas Axe, Guillermo Gonzalez, Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, magic, panspermia, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Meyer, Walter Bradley Center}

Marks, Bradley: “Magical” Circumstances Around the Publication of The Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Science and Culture
February 6, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The book would go on to spark the beginning of the modern intelligent design movement. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Adam Marcus, evolution, evolutionists, Granville Sewell, hallucination, intelligent design, Retraction Watch, Second Law of Thermodynamics}

Getting “Intelligent Design” Backward

_{Casey Luskin
February 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That framing is backwards, or perhaps upside-down, probably in order to make the paper by Granville Sewell sound unreasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 5, 2020

Categories
Medicine
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, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, Belgium, death, depression, doctors, euthanasia, Holland, killing, manslaughter, protective guidelines, Time Magazine}

Doctors Who Euthanized Autistic Woman Found Not Guilty

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2020

Medicine

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Do you now see that protective guidelines and so-called restrictions, which advocates solemnly promise will protect against abuse, are mere useless veneer? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, "poor design", adaptation, anti-fragility, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design principles, Engineering Research Group, engineers, evolutionists, failure prevention, human body, intelligent design, resilience, Steve Laufmann}

Join Us: Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, April 23-25, in Southern California

_{David Klinghoffer
February 5, 2020

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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The most spectacular example of an engineered living system is the human body, toward the invention of which the whole cosmos appears to have been very carefully aimed. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Adam Marcus, Applied Mathematics Letters, autism, bioRxiv, compensation argument, coronavirus, Dilbert, Elsevier, entropy, evolution, Evolution News, Granville Sewell, India, intelligent design, Ivan Oransky, junk science, Nautilus, peer review, Physics Essays, Retraction Watch, Scott Adams, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Why Evolution Is Different}

Retraction Watch Guys Hallucinate “Intelligent Design” Yet Again

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2020

Intelligent Design

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A helpful formulation comes from podcaster Scott Adams, of “Dilbert” fame, who comments entertainingly on the political scene. Read More ›