Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, aquaporins, archaea, archaellum, ATP, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, biologists, Design Inference, extraterrestrial intelligence, eyes, human body, industry, insects, intelligent design, kidneys, larvae, microbes, nanomachine, Nature Microbiology, New York Post, outboard motor, Penn State, proteins, river, stars, toilet, University of Cambridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

For Your Post-Holiday Enjoyment, Healthy ID Snacks

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Among other design inspirations, the “ultimate non-stick coating” developed at McMaster University is based on the lotus leaf. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Arizona State University, Biomimetics, centipedes, cilia, electricity, electron transport, genes, genomes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, materials science, metabolism, Michael Behe, miRNA, orb webs, photosynthesis, physiology, spiders, swimming, Tohoku University, University of North Carolina, University of Otago}

Care for Appetizers? Electric Proteins, Spidey Sense, and More

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2020

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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Welcome to the second day of the New Year! Like tasty sliders, these short news stories should get the juices flowing for big developments in 2020. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Ben Shapiro, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, evolution, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, Paul Nelson, Richard Lenski, Stephen Meyer, The Claremont Review of Books, The Deniable Darwin, Thomas Nagel, Tom Wolfe, Yale University}

#1 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Informed by Discovery Authors, Yale’s David Gelernter Rejects Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 1, 2020

Evolution

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He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 31, 2019

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, __edited, 1000 Genomes Project, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, Darwin, human evolution, human origins, Ola Hössjer, population genetics}

#2 of Our Top Stories of 2019: BIO-Complexity Paper Shows We Could Have Come from Two

_{Ann Gauger
December 31, 2019

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 30, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, biological diversity, Christianity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, evolution, Judaism, Ludwig van Beethoven, natural selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Yankee Stadium}

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2019: PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20

_{David Klinghoffer
December 30, 2019

Evolution

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Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Afar region, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, David Gelernter, Ethiopia, Galápagos Islands, Germany, Homo (genus), Little Foot, Lucy, Modern evolutionary synthesis, mount improbable, National Geographic, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paranthropus, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, stickleback fish, Stuttgart, vertebrate}

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Apeman Waves Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A few days ago a sensational new paleontological discovery made headlines around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 28, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
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, __edited, barbarism, Ben Shapiro, Columbia University, Communism, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, evolution, First World War, French Revolution, genocide, Human Nature (book), modern life, Nazism, Neanderthals, social status, Stanford University, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, taboos, tattooing}

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

_{David Klinghoffer
December 28, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, computer analysis, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Polar Bear Seminar

_{Casey Luskin
December 27, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›