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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, California, Court of Appeals, discrimination, euthanasia, health, hospitals, hysterectomy, life, medicine, nursing homes, pathology, patients, Roman Catholic, suicide, transgenderism, treatment}

Bioethics Versus Catholic Healthcare: California Court Ruling Proves My Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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A Catholic hospital chain known as Dignity Health refused to perform a hysterectomy on a transgendered male, as against Catholic moral teaching. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, ACLU, doctors, effective referral, euthanasia, healthcare, infanticide, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, nurses, patients, pharmacists, quality of life, Roman Catholic, sanctity of life, suicide, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Intends to Destroy Catholic Healthcare

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 22, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Meanwhile, to the applause of many bioethicists, the ACLU has mounted repeated lawsuits against Catholic hospitals. Read More ›

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Date
September 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Christianity, Darwinism, From Darwin to Hitler, history, ID the Future, Michael Keas, Michael Ruse, podcast, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, war}

Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse’s “Compromise” with Christianity

_{Science and Culture
September 21, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Michael Ruse aims at a surprising conclusion in his new book. Weikart isn’t buying it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, American Biology Teacher, biologists, Eric Plutzer, J. Budziszewski, Neo-Darwinism, Penn State, scientists, students, teachers, The Atlantic, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Texas}

When Biologists Speak to Biology Teachers

_{David Klinghoffer
September 20, 2019

Biology, Science Education

4}

Why should the reality be hidden from young people? Or from teachers? Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, America, beavers, Current Biology, dandelions, Darwinism, England, fish, fluid dynamics, intelligent design, mantis shrimp, mollusk, pappus, proboscis, Science Advances, Sweden, U.C. Irvine, University of Minnesota, venom, water lilies}

A Snail as Fast as a Bullet, and Other Darwin-Defying Marvels

_{Science and Culture
September 20, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

You could fill up a web publication’s daily coverage just with new wonders from the world of life. Would that be expected given Darwinian assumptions? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 19, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, alt-right, bipedalism, Bronx Zoo, Discovery Institute, education, Galápagos Islands, Glenn Branch, human evolution, Human Zoos, humans, James Watson, John West, Mind and Cosmos, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Next Generation Science Standards, Ota Benga, phylogenetic trees, primates, public education, Sarah Chaffee, Texas, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Nagel, Tom Wolfe}

From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting

_{David Klinghoffer
September 19, 2019

Biology, Science Education, Science Reporting

8}

With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, Beatris Rusu, Darwinism, development, DNA, evolution, ID the Future, immaterial genome, intelligent design, mutation/selection mechanism, Plato, podcast, Richard Sternberg, Summer Seminars, Timaeus}

Richard Sternberg: Intelligent Design “Through the Eyes of a Platonist”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

2}

“There has to be something in addition to just the DNA sequences alone that explains development.” Read More ›

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Date
September 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, barnacles, BBC, Biomimetics, calcium, California, environmentalists, intelligent design, iron, materials science, Moringa oleifera, mother-of-pearl, nacre, Paul Nelson, Penn State, selenium, spider silk, University of Connecticut}

Walnuts: Intelligent Design in a Nutshell — Literally

_{Science and Culture
September 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

6}

Walnut shells are found to create 3-D puzzles with tissues that even toothy squirrels can’t easily crack. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Christianity, computer science, creationists, Darwinism, David Gelernter, evolution, Hebrew Bible, Judaism, Melanie Phillips, Old Testament, PZ Myers, violence, William Lane Craig, Yale University}

Melanie Phillips, Pro-Sanity Journalist, on David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2019

Evolution

4}

Phillips draws a helpful parallel between intolerant leftism, in command in our culture now, and the evolutionism that similarly will tolerate no challenges. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2019

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, astrobiology, Atacama Desert, Australia, BBC News, cable bacteria, carbon, Chile, DNA, Great Barrier Reef, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, microbes, molecular machines, Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports, New Scientist, oxygen, Paul Nelson, perchlorates, PNAS}

With an Assist from Nature, DNA Travels the Globe

_{Science and Culture
September 18, 2019

Life Sciences

9}

Life makes its way around the world using nonliving transportation systems, seeding the world with complex specified information. Read More ›