Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

^{Type
post

Date
May 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Aristotle, coronavirus, COVID-19, Evolution News, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, mutations, neurosurgeon, podcast, purpose, viruses}

COVID-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Science & Culture
May 14, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy

1}

Dr. Egnor draws upon Aristotle to argue that mutations and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 14, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andrew Moore, BioEssays, CDC, censorship, COVID-19, Dave Speijer, democracy, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, Federal Government, free speech, intelligent design, Iran, Italy, Karl Popper, Paul Nelson, schools, search engines, social media, South Korea, Thomas Paine, University of Amsterdam, vaccine, White House}

Prominent Biology Journal Demands Government Censorship of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
May 14, 2020

Scientific Freedom

7}

A scientist calls for censorship while having the chutzpah to quote from Thomas Paine, a foremost spokesman for free speech in Western democracy. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, Harvard University, Louis Agassiz, National Academy of Sciences, Paul Broca, Racism, religion, Stanford University, The Descent of Man}

Louis Agassiz: Some Additional Thoughts

_{Michael Flannery
May 14, 2020

Evolution

4}

Despite the significance of Agassiz’s scientific accomplishments, his heavy historical baggage cannot be lightly discarded or ignored. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, active information, BIO-Complexity, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, equilibrium, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness landscape, genetic algorithms, genome, Jonathan Bartlett, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mathematician, Michael Behe, mutations, Richard Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Evolution

7}

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earth, exoplanets, fuel, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, NASA, rockets, solar system, The Privileged Planet}

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, Cambridge, Cornell University, coronavirus, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Harvard University, homologies, intelligent design, Massachusetts, Michael Flannery, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, Richard Owen, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, Switzerland}

Louis Agassiz and the National Academy’s Secret

_{Robert Shedinger
May 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Abraham Lincoln signed the Academy into law with Agassiz by his side. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran biota, embryos, fossil record, Jerry Coyne, Metazoa, metazoans, microfossils, Namibia, New York Times, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, White Sea, Wikipedia}

The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2020

Evolution

54}

Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, assisted suicide, coronavirus, COVID-19, despair, doctors, New Jersey, public policy, suicide prevention}

New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2020

Bioethics

3}

With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, conflict myth, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Fox Broadcasting Company, history, ID the Future, immortality, Jay Richards, medicine, Michael Keas, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, religion, science, superstition, Unbelievable}

Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

_{Science & Culture
May 12, 2020

Faith & Science, Medicine, Technology

1}

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, academia, artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Center for Science and Culture, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, John West, lockdown, media, Michael Egnor, mind, quantum mechanics, Robert J. Marks II, science, scientists, universe, Walter Bradley Center, webinar}

Free Webinar, May 16: Compliant or Critical? Scientific Authority in the Age of COVID-19

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

2}

“Follow the science!” we’re told. “Listen to the scientists!” Should we submit to such calls, or insist on thinking for ourselves? Read More ›