Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Africa, anole lizards, arctic tern, birds, carbohydrate, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, dinosaurs, driver, evolution, finches, flightless cormorant, flightlessness, Galápagos Islands, glacier, global warming, Gondwana, Hawaii, honeycreepers, mass extinction, Michael Behe, migration, New Zealand, PNAS}

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

_{Science and Culture
April 23, 2019

Evolution

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They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Africa, apes, atheism, BBC, birth control, bonobos, chimpanzees, Christians, church, communion, Darwinism, Easter, Eucharist, evolution, genetic fallacy, great apes, humans, Jane Goodall, jesus, last common ancestor, Mass, materialists, meals, monkeys, neocortex, On the Origin of Species, religion, savannah}

How Did Religion “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
April 23, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, advance medical directive, Discovery Institute, doctors, Evolution News, futile care, laws, medicine, patients, Texas, values, Wesley Smith}

Before Texas Senate Committee, Smith Testifies on Medical Coercion Law, “Worst in the U.S.”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Thank you to Wesley J. Smith for fighting what’s often a very lonely fight against the increasingly dehumanizing tendency in contemporary medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, consciousness, earth, environmentalism, Ferris Jabr, Gaia Theory, humanity, Lake Erie, life, Mars, misanthropy, morality, mysticism, nature rights, neo-paganism, New York Times, organisms, religion, rivers, sentience, Toledo}

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 22, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, atom, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmos, creationism, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, galaxy, Jay Richards, nature, science, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Richards: “Designed for Life, Designed for Discovery”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2019

Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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Imagine a scenario where you don’t know the ancient age of the cosmos, but rather, only that it has an age, whatever that might be. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
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, __k-review, abiogenesis, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, James Tour, nanotechnology, Rice University, scientists, synthetic chemistry}

Chemist James Tour Is Scathing, Hilarious: “Show Me the Chemistry” of Abiogenesis. “It’s Not There.”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Professor Tour is without parallel. Truly, I’d love to hear from our materialist critics how they would answer any of this. Read More ›

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Date
April 21, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, cells, Discovery Institute, DNA, ID the Future, intelligent design, library, podcast, transcription, translation}

Inside the Cell: DNA as a Library

_{Science and Culture
April 21, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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And just think, it all arose by chance, blind, mindless processes alone, didn’t it? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
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, __k-review, assisted suicide, courts, culture, Europe, European Union, Germany, human rights, law, patients, physicians, suicide}

German High Court to Rule on Right to Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 20, 2019

Bioethics

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If the continent’s most important country embraces the culture of death, the darkness will spread. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, 3D printing, abiogenesis, computer, evolution, Granville Sewell, reward, self-replication}

Announcing New Sewell Prize in Biological Origins Studies!

_{David Klinghoffer
April 19, 2019

Evolution

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It sets a fascinating challenge but offers an enviable reward. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, australopithecine, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Darwinian expectations, Darwinism, Denisovans, fossil record, Homo (genus), Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, John Hawks, Karl Popper, Nature (journal), Philippines, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal}

New Fossil Human Species Thwarts Core Darwinian Predictions

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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I can hardly resist the temptation to say “I told you so,” or to jokingly remark, “Oops, they did it again.” Read More ›