Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, 1984 (novel), Alexander Oparin, cell membranes, coacervates, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, doublespeak, early Earth, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, media, meteorites, Miller-Urey experiment, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, public education, religion, researchers, ribozymes, RNA, scientific literature, scientists}

Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

_{Brian Miller
August 7, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life, Physics

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In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Asia, Austria, Brazil, Brian Miller, censorship, Center for Biocomplexity and Teleology in Nature, Center for Science and Culture, China, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Europe, Florence, Günter Bechly, Hoover Institution, intelligent design, Italy, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Peter Robinson, Portugal, São Paulo, Siegfried Scherer, Spain, Stephen Meyer, Yale University}

With Upcoming Second Spanish Conference, Intelligent Design’s European Footprint Grows

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2019

Intelligent Design

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You may remember the story of how the first European Conference on Intelligent Design (TDI Europe) was chased out of two universities in Portugal only to find refuge in León, Spain. Read More ›

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Date
August 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, censorship, Darwinism, free will, humans, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, materialism, morality, podcast, radio, Science Uprising}

Jonathan Witt Talks Science Uprising and More with Jerry Newcombe

_{Science and Culture
August 6, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Witt and Newcombe discuss philosophical materialism, free will, morality, and what it means to be human. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, “consensus science”, academic freedom, biological origins, college students, computer science, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, fear, free speech, ideology, Jennifer Kabbany, Peter Robinson, religion, science, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix, Yale University}

Yale’s Gelernter: To Challenge Darwinism Is to “Take Your Life in Your Hands”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2019

Biology, Scientific Freedom

4}

Fully as important as David Gelernter’s personal apostasy is his testimony about what happens to scientists who choose to “judge for themselves.” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 4, 2019

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Abby Hafer, academic freedom, evolution, intelligent design, Louisiana, Massachusetts, science denial, science education, students, teachers, Tennessee}

In Massachusetts, Spreading Myths About Academic Freedom Legislation

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 4, 2019

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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In those few paragraphs, there’s a great deal of misinformation about academic freedom laws, how they harm science teaching and imperil students and educators. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 3, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Dean Kenyon, Eric Hedin, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, National Review, professionals, Scott Minnich, universities}

Lukianoff Optimistic About Academic Freedom, Gives Advice for Concerned Citizens

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 3, 2019

Scientific Freedom

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If implemented, would these ideas have succored those who faced discrimination in universities, including Eric Hedin, Scott Minnich, or Dean Kenyon? Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
August 2, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", archeology, CERN, Cold War, DNA, fingerprints, Forensics, functional information, genomes, intelligence, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, Large Hadron Collider, Michael Behe, ocean, Robert Hazen, scientific method, SETI, smartphones, Stephen Meyer}

A Scientific Method for Design Detection

_{Kirk Durston
August 2, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 1, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, cats, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, Dogs, hammer, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Science Uprising, spring, taxonomy, The Edge of Evolution}

Irreducible Complexity Defeated? Behe on Ken Miller’s Mousetrap Tie-Clip

_{David Klinghoffer
August 1, 2019

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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At a conference, says Miller, “I removed two parts from a mousetrap (leaving just the base, spring, and hammer), and used that 3-part device as a functional tie-clip.” Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biological novelty, bioRxiv, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, devolution, East Africa, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, finches, grizzly bears, Hank Green, Lake Victoria, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Michael Behe, Nature Scientific Reports, polar bears, preprints, species, taxpayers, The Conversation, The Edge of Evolution}

Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2019

Evolution

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If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter. Read More ›

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Date
July 30, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Charles Darwin, civility, conference, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, evolution, free speech, Gestapo, Herman Bouma, ID the Future, National Science Teaching Association, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, Sarah Chaffee, security guards, St. Louis}

Herman Bouma: “It Was Like the Darwinian Gestapo”

_{Science and Culture
July 30, 2019

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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Backed up by no fewer than four security guards, three conference officials hustled him out, accusing him of promoting fake science. Read More ›