Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
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, __edited, censorship, conference, debate, economy, Enlightenment, free market, free speech, men, National Association of Scholars, post-modernism, science, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, women}

To Create or Destroy, Via Twitter

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 21, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Wood here is the creator. Teytelman is the would-be destroyer. He could work with people sympathetic to his view to hold an alternate conference. Read More ›

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Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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, __edited, berkeley, California, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, Illustra Media, intelligent design, materialism, networking, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, Stephen Meyer, symposium}

Listen: In Berkeley, California, Stephen Meyer Honors Phillip Johnson

_{Science and Culture
January 21, 2020

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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These messages come mostly from a November 2019 symposium held in Johnson’s honor in Berkeley, California. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Bioscience, CNN, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, horseshoe crabs, Nature Scientific Reports, Ohio, Ohio State University, paleontology, Parioscorpio venator, poison, publish or perish, Science (journal), scorpions, Smithsonian Magazine, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin}

The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science

_{Günter Bechly
January 21, 2020

Evolution

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What do we learn from this case? In today’s science world it is no longer sufficient to objectively describe some nicely preserved ancient fossils. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, agnosticism, Charles Thaxton, Christianity, En Arche Foundation, English, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Polish, skepticism, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, theology}

Michael Denton and Intelligent Design’s Big Tent

_{David Klinghoffer
January 20, 2020

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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People who cannot agree on the details of a single theology, or any theology at all, do agree that nature gives an “overwhelming impression” (in Denton’s words) of design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
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, __edited, Center for Science and Culture, Dallas, Daniel Reeves, Early Church, East Coast, evolution, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, Philadelphia, Stephen Meyer, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, April 3-4 in Philadelphia: Design and the Designer

_{David Klinghoffer
January 20, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science

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The culture bombards us with materialism. That’s the case even as, at deeper and deeper levels, science reveals evidence of a plan, foresight, a deliberately shaping force working upon nature. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Darwinians, de novo genes, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, E. coli, encryption, George Wald, imagination, natural selection, Nature (journal), non-coding DNA, open reading frames, plasticity, proteins, proto-genes, University of Oslo}

Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __edited, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, eugenics, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, segregationists, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 19, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, brain, chemicals, consciousness, David Berlinski, dualism, electrical signals, faith, Islam, life after death, London, materialism, meat, psychiatry, Rational Religion, Roman Catholic, soul, spirit, Umar Nasser}

Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2020

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Intelligent Design
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, __edited, evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, scholars, scientists, Walter Bradley Center}

ID Inquiry: Robert J. Marks on Information and Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
January 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Hear an installment in our ID Inquiry series, in which ID scientists and scholars answer your questions about intelligent design and evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, apology, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity Today, Darrel Falk, Darwin's Doubt, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, enzyme, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Evolution News, human origins, humans, intelligent design, mutations, nylonase, Retraction Crisis, S. Joshua Swamidass, science, Scripture, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, truth-seeking, vitellogenin}

BioLogos and the Search for Truth

_{David Klinghoffer
January 17, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Exactly how have the viewpoints at BioLogos been amended? Like a summer’s day in Seattle, it’s a bit cloudy — at least on the most interesting points. Read More ›