Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, church, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, Dennis Prager, free will, Friedrich Engels, Hannah Arendt, Jerry Coyne, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, lockdown, Marxists, materialism, Michigan, natural law, New York City, Orthodox Jews, Soviet Union, The New Yorker, The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism, Tucker Carlson}

Darwinism, Totalitarianism, and the Lockdown

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Medicine

6}

Hannah Arendt was the leading philosopher of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She explicitly links totalitarian ideology to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, academia, academic freedom, assisted suicide, atheism, authority, Brian Miller, Caroline Crocker, Charles Marshall, Commentary, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dan Brown, Darwinism, David Coppedge, David Gelernter, Douglas Axe, Edmond Kirsch, Energy, Eric Hedin, fluctuation theorems, Günter Bechly, Inference (journal), intelligent design, James Tour, Jeremy England, Keith Fox, Lee Cronin, Martin Gaskell, MIT, neighbors, Orthodox Jews, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, Scott Minnich, second of law thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Unbelievable, unemployment, University of Glasgow, University of Southampton}

Courage, Courtesy, and the Origin of Life — Congratulations to Physicist Jeremy England

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

7}

As Yale’s David Gelernter has said of Darwinism, to challenge it is to “take your life in your hands.” Read More ›

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Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cassini mission, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, Enceladus, evolution, Gregor Mendel, history, hydrothermal vents, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, Miller-Urey experiment, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Saturn, Unbelievable}

From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

_{Science & Culture
May 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

1}

Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, computer engineering, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Foresight (book), intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, mass spectrometry, Michael Behe, molecules, Nobel laureates}

Message from the Molecules — They Say “Intelligent Design”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

2}

You could have an interesting argument about which field of science will ultimately clinch the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, caterpillar, intelligent design, love, mutations, natural selection, neutral evolution, pattern, population, proteins, sequence space}

Love, Chocolate, and Neutral Evolution

_{Ann Gauger
May 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Neutral evolution means mutations are occurring all the time, and most of the time they are neutral, or nearly neutral. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ATP synthase, Charles Dickens, chemical bonds, chemists, DNA, early Earth, energy production, entropy, enzymes, fluctuation theorems, free energy, genome, India, Inference (journal), information, information processing, James Tour, Jeremy England, media, MIT, molecular machines, molecules, nanotechnology, natural processes, physicists, ribozymes, self-replication, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Inference Article Demonstrates Implausibility of Natural Processes for Explaining the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
May 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

8}

The piece is highly technical and mathematical, but the basic argument can be quickly summarized with only a marginal loss of technical accuracy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2020

Categories
Arts
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, authority, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, creativity, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, entertainment, history, mask, medical science, Michael Egnor, music, pandemic, Politics, religion, Rich Lowry, Robert J. Marks II, scientism, social distancing, Wesley Smith, worship, Wuhan}

From Pfizer, Scientism and Self-Congratulation

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2020

Arts, Medicine, Philosophy

4}

Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things. Read More ›

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Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, culture, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, marriage, morality, podcast, purpose, religion, researchers, Western culture}

Listen: Darwinism and Private Life

_{Science & Culture
May 4, 2020

Bioethics

1}

John West discusses how Darwinism has corroded Western culture, including the most private aspects of our lives. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, classroom, Cornell University, coronavirus, COVID-19, Facebook, Forbes, universities, Zoom}

Online Education and the Evolution Debate

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 4, 2020

Scientific Freedom

3}

Given recent developments in education, our mission has become more urgent than ever. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, attorneys, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

The Bioethicist Pandemic

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

9}

The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›