Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, Canadians, Charles Townes, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Nobel Prize, physical existence, Princeton University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2019

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis, civilization, complex life, consciousness, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, David Gelernter, evolution, Greek, Human Nature (book), intelligent design, Islam, Italy, Jerry Coyne, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, materialism, Michael Behe, Paris, Peter Robinson, Rational Religion, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Lenski, saltation, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, subjunctive, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, Umar Nasser, Uncommon Knowledge}

Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

5}

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
October 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, arthropod, BBC News, bilaterians, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, chordate, Darwin's Doubt, earthworms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, lophotrochozoans, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, University of Edinburgh, Yilingia spiciformis}

Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science and Culture
October 7, 2019

Evolution

8}

A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, barbiturates, Bill Clinton, Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, hospice, hospitals, hydration, medical school, medicine, nutrition, Oregon, palliative care, self-starvation, Supreme Court, VSED}

A Trojan Horse for Euthanasia? No

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

9}

When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the sharp bodily decline that hits those in their late 90s, my wife and I brought her home for care. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
October 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, beavers, biodiversity, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Scotland, walnut, water lily}

Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving, Cont.

_{Science and Culture
October 5, 2019

Intelligent Design

1}

Researchers in Scotland have shown that beavers, once considered by some as nuisances good only for their pelts, are actually great biodiversity engineers. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dan Tawfik, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, development, evolution, Gerd Müller, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, mutations, neo-Darwinian theory, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, paleontology, Peter Robinson, protein folds, proteins, Quillette, Royal Society, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, The Deniable Darwin, Weizmann Institute}

Coyne, Bechly, Miller, Berlinski: Scientists Debate David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

7}

If anyone is worrying, it is Coyne and his fellow Darwinists, alarmed at the defection of a stellar intellect like Gelernter. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, essential causal chain, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

12}

Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adolf Hitler, Berlin, evolutionary ethics, genocide, Germans, Germany, Holocaust, lawgiver, Michael Egnor, Moral Law, morality, rape}

A Follow-Up Question on Evolutionary Ethics

_{David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Per the reader’s request, I asked Michael Egnor to “defend the reality of objectively real morals.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, adulthood, anti-humanism, Archbishop of Canterbury, C.S. Lewis, George Gilder, James Le Fanu, Michael Aeschliman, responsibility, The Restoration of Man}

Species Dysphoria: Former Archbishop of Canterbury on Aeschliman’s Restoration of Man

_{David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

2}

An observation by Rowan Williams, that many of us “don’t want to be human,” is a profound insight. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, cosmological arguments, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, Parmenides, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

12}

In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›