Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Brazil, children's books, Discovery Institute, education, faith, home, Houston, Houston Baptist University, ID the Future, intelligent design, interview, Mama Bear Apologetics, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, public education, science, Science and the Mind of the Maker, Texas}

Mama Bear: Melissa Travis on Parenting, Education, and the Reasons 2019 Conference

_{Science and Culture
April 18, 2019

Biology, Chemistry, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Professor Travis has made it her mission to help parents — especially mothers — navigate tough questions about origins and beliefs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Bradley Center, computers, Dallas, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, future, George Gilder, Jay Richards, machines, meat machines, Robert J. Marks II, robots}

Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise

_{David Klinghoffer
April 18, 2019

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines. Read More ›

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Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Dover trial, evo-devo, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural genetic engineering, neutral theory, outboard motor, PLOS Biology, starvation, T3SS, type III secretion system}

Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

_{Science and Culture
April 18, 2019

Intelligent Design

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This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, cosmos, Darwin Devolves, Emily Kurlinski, experimentation, faith, foresight, human beings, ID the Future, intelligent design, investigation, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, podcast, science, Science and the Mind of the Maker, Texas, Unbelievable}

Melissa Cain Travis: The Argument from the Existence of Science

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2019

Faith & Science

2}

Professor Travis is among the speakers at next month’s conference, co-sponsored by our Houston Chapter, Reasons 2019. Read More ›

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Date
April 17, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, E. coli, evolution, fungi, HGT, honeybees, horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, ID the Future, introgression, Michael Behe, microbiome, mutations, PLOS Biology, PNAS, radiation, RNA polymerase, Stanford University, Taiwan, University of Barcelona}

Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

_{Science and Culture
April 17, 2019

Evolution

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We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
April 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, education, Establishment Clause, Henri Bergson, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Michael Behe, natural genetic engineering, neo-Darwinian, public education, Royal Society, Rutgers University, Science Education Policy, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago}

Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism

_{Sarah Chaffee
April 16, 2019

Evolution, Science Education

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May a teacher let students know what evolutionary biologists had to say about their own field at the November 2016 Royal Society meeting? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
April 16, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, bells, gargoyle, Johann Sebastian Bach, M.-P. Schützenberger, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, pompiers}

Letter from Paris: The Bells Are Silent

_{David Berlinski
April 16, 2019

Faith & Science

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I would go into the cathedral and light a candle for M.-P. Schützenberger. He had wished to return as one of the gargoyles, and, perhaps, he had. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Darwinists, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Joe Thornton, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, National Academy of Sciences, Richard Lenski, unguided evolution, University of Chicago, Washington Post}

Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 16, 2019

Evolution

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It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
April 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, atheism, Austin Hughes, bacteria, Bible, Canada, common descent, Darwinian theory, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, faith, fruit flies, humans, inferential science, observations, RNA replication, science, scientism}

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong?

_{Kirk Durston
April 15, 2019

Evolution, Geology, Origin of Life

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There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Edwin Hubble, faith, John Zmirak, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rube Goldberg, science, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Zeitgeist}

A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2019

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›