Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, algorithms, Ann Gauger, atheism, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Christianity Today, Christians, Dennis Venema, DNA, fingerprints, first couple, genetic data, Jews, monozygotic twins, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, University of Stockholm}

From Ann Gauger and Ola Hössjer, a New Standard for the Science of a “First Couple”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Their scrupulous work found that Jerry Coyne and others, in bullying Christians and Jews on how “we can dismiss a physical Adam and Eve with near scientific certainty,” were in reality poorly supported. Read More ›

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Date
October 29, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, evolution, Halloween, icons, Jonathan Wells, Zombie Science (book)}

Halloween Countdown No. 5: The Zombies Are Coming!

_{Science and Culture
October 29, 2019

Biology, Evolution

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To mark Halloween, we are highlighting some appropriate videos from our library and elsewhere this week. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited}

Darwinism: Past, Present, and Future

_{Michael Flannery
October 29, 2019

Evolution

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Amidst all this chest thumping over neo-Darwinian certainties, doubts are unmistakably on the rise. Read More ›

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Date
October 28, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Ann Gauger, ATP, causal circularity, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design}

Gauger on Evolution’s Causal Circularity Problem: “Chickens and Eggs, All the Way Down”

_{Science and Culture
October 28, 2019

Evolution

1}

Cells can’t make life-essential ATP, NAD, and other metabolic co-factors without having ATP, NAD, and the other co-factors there first. Read More ›

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Author
Otangelo Grasso

Date
October 28, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Aarhus University, Carl Zimmer, Darwinian evolution, electrons, microbiology, nanowires, New Scientist, New York Times, oxygen, pili, respiration, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Virginia}

Electroactive Bacteria: A “Mind-Blowing” Case of Intelligent Design

_{Otangelo Grasso
October 28, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Somehow, G. sulfurreducens “know” how to assemble molecules in their pili in an exact sequential and functional order. Read More ›

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Date
October 27, 2019

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, electrons, evidence, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, nature}

Michael Egnor on Atheist Jerry Coyne’s Divine Sense Organ

_{Science and Culture
October 27, 2019

Biology, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Through reason we can infer the unseen from the seen — everything from the existence of unseen electrons to the existence of an unseen intelligent designer from the evidence of design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 26, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, English, euthanasia, health, human rights, Jack Kevorkian, money, nihilism, suicide, Switzerland}

Deep Suicide Nihilism in Switzerland

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 26, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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A new suicide clinic is advertising its dark services in Switzerland — with “native English speaking” staff to ensure that suicide tourists attend. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 25, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chimpanzees, Dennis Venema, effective population size, evolutionary assumptions, first couple, genetic diversity, human origin, humans, mortality, Ola Hössjer, parsimony, Peaceful Science, population size, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Steve Schaffner}

More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

_{Ann Gauger
October 25, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, artificial intelligence, Bellevue, Center for Science and Culture, chess, currency, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Facebook, George Gilder, intelligent design, Microsoft, money, Silicon Valley, Steve Forbes, trust, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

COSM Conference: A Bonfire for Tech Vanities

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Peter Thiel assailed the “Atheist Church,” as he calls the universities, calling for outsiders to push for a reformation that the academic priesthood will never undertake on its own. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2019

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

New PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2019

Evolution

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Watched by a million people this week, 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 ›