Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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December 9, 2019

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Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
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, __edited, agnosticism, biological origins, Darwinism, David Berlinski, entropy, Europe, evolution, Human Nature (book), ID the Future, Jews, patriotism, Peter Robinson, podcast, science, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theism, Uncommon Knowledge}

David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism

_{Science and Culture
December 9, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
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, __edited, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, cats, Dogs, environmental movement, feces, meat, New Scientist, pets}

Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2019

Bioethics

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Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”! Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, blue whale, Caltech, capsid, cytoplasm, DNA, Escherichia coli, evolution, geodesic dome, heart rate, intelligent design, machinery, marine biologists, nanotechnology, NOAA, Stanford University}

Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest

_{Science and Culture
December 9, 2019

Intelligent Design

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What’s bigger than a blue whale? Smaller than a virus? At the extremes and everywhere in between, life shows ingenious design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, birth control, employment, First Amendment, freedom of religion, Islam, litigation, Roman Catholic}

Mission: To Eviscerate Freedom of Religion

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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The only real difference between Robyn Pennacchia and me is that I believe in the entirety of the First Amendment and she does not. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __edited, cooperation, David Berlinski, death camps, ID the Future, Nazi Party, Nazis, Peter Robinson, podcast, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, theology}

Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?

_{Science and Culture
December 7, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, biomimicry, creationism, Darwinian materialism, dialogue, Georgia, intelligent design, Jeffrey Kripal, materialism, pastors, priests, religion, Rice University, San Diego, science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Letter from San Diego: Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses?

_{Robert Shedinger
December 6, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Medicine
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, __edited, abortion, baby, children, conception, death, doctor, fertilization, fetus, gravity, heliocentrism, human beings, human development, human life, humanity, ideology, junk science, laymen, medical profession, right to life, Twitter}

Dr. Gunter’s Junk Science on Abortion

_{Michael Egnor
December 6, 2019

Biology, Medicine

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An embryo is fully human, as is a fetus, a newborn, a toddler, a child, a teen, a mature adult and an elderly adult. Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Adaptive Radiation, Brigham Young University, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cornell University, Current Biology, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, genetic information, Harvard University, Heliconius, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, Jonathan Wells, phylogenetic tree, PNAS, regulation, Science (journal), The Scientist}

Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

_{Science and Culture
December 6, 2019

Evolution

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In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›

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Date
December 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, beauty, butterflies, caterpillar, Drosophila, evolution, foresight, Georgetown University, Heliconius, helicopter, Illustra Media, larvae, Lepidopterans, Metamorphosis, Model T, Monarch butterflies, moths, New Scientist, odors, Paul Nelson, photonic crystals, pigmentation, PLOS ONE, South America, University of Liverpool}

How Butterflies “Evolve” by Design

_{Science and Culture
December 5, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Biologists have wondered how the patterns on butterfly wings change. Read More ›

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Date
December 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, bats, behavior, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Finches, Darwinism, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hippocratic Oath, homeostasis, Illustra Media, Immune System, Jerry Coyne, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Peter and Rosemary Grant, pharynx, Philip Skell, phylogeny, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, turtles, whales}

No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

_{Science and Culture
December 4, 2019

Evolution

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Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations. Read More ›