Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, ADP, aging, ATP synthase, ATP synthesis, bacterial flagellum, cells, Darwin Devolves, efficiency, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Penn State, physiology, PNAS, rods, rotary engine}

Design for ATP Extends Beyond the Rotary Engine

_{Science and Culture
August 21, 2019

Intelligent Design

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New discoveries explore the astonishing efficiency of the cell’s rotary engine ATP synthase, and describe new roles for other motors that deliver ATP. Read More ›

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Date
August 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, Denis Alexander, Douglas Futuyma, education, evolution, Francis Collins, George Williams, God-talk, human nature, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, John Avise, Kenneth Miller, methodological naturalism, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem

_{Science and Culture
August 20, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Science Education

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A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›

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Date
August 18, 2019

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, behavior, chimpanzees, culture, Darwinian mechanisms, Human Evolution (journal), humans, ID the Future, mutations, physiology, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Wesley Smith}

More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Anatomy and Behavior

_{Science and Culture
August 18, 2019

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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It seems obvious: humans and chimps differ markedly. But as Wesley Smith noted yesterday, it is not so obvious to the editors of Human Evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal rights, animal welfare, bonobos, chimpanzees, currency, Eugene M. Fahey, genocide, habeas corpus, Heritage, Holocaust, hominins, Human Evolution (journal), human rights, inflation, Jane Goodall, National Institutes of Health, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood}

Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, August Weismann, Barry Hall, blasphemy, central dogma, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, dogmatism, evidence, Francis Crick, heresy, ideology, John Cairns, Lamarckian theory, Luther College, Lutherans, Martin Luther, Matti Leisola, Max Delbrück, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Richard Lenski, Roman Catholic, Ronald Fisher, Salvador Luria, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 16, 2019

Evolution

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Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 15, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, culture, David French, faith, Instagram, National Review, reporter}

How Science Shapes Culture: The Case of Marty Sampson

_{David Klinghoffer
August 15, 2019

Bioethics

3}

Listen to the man’s own words, which cite science as playing at least some role in his thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Ian Barbour, ideology, industrial melanism, John Haught, Luther College, Michael Ruse, peppered moth, religion, Roman Catholic, scholars, science, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, theology}

Have Religion Scholars Been Deceived by Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2019

Evolution

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On the relationship between religion on science, few scholars have been more influential than the late Ian Barbour, a physicist and theologian. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 13, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, blasphemy, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian ideology, dogmatism, evolution, heresy, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Luther College, materialism, mental illness, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, mind, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Phillip E. Johnson, religion, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

How Does a Religious Studies Professor Become a Darwinian Skeptic?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 13, 2019

Faith & Science

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The perpetuation of Darwinian ideology comes at the cost of truly grappling with the profound nature of the question of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 12, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, chromosomes, codon, computer, digital code, diploidal genome, DNA, gene, intelligent design, mammals, mitochondrial DNA, nucleotides}

The Genius of Alternative Reading Frames

_{Ann Gauger
August 12, 2019

Intelligent Design

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This is amazing! Here we have multiple meanings being read from one stretch of digital code. Read More ›