Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 14, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anaxagoras, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, nature, podcast, Todd Butterfield}

Michael Flannery: Intelligent Design Is Older Than You Think — A Lot Older

_{Science and Culture
April 14, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

1}

Professor Flannery discusses the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 B.C.), who was one of the first to articulate an argument for design in nature. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 13, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ben Shapiro, evolution, Google, intelligent design, natural selection, Southern California, Stephen Meyer, Sunday Special, universe}

Stephen Meyer: The Universe, but Make It Brief

_{David Klinghoffer
April 13, 2019

Intelligent Design

2}

My kids will you confirm for you how much I admire brevity. I’m a broken record on the subject of being concise. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, biotechnology, China, Mark Twain, MIT Technology Review, monkeys, Pandora’s box, scientists, University of Colorado, William Hurlbut}

China Genetically Engineering Monkeys to Be More Human

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 12, 2019

Bioethics

3}

Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, black hole, CNN, general relativity, Guillermo Gonzalez, light, media, photo, The Stream, universe}

First Ever Black Hole Image Points to Cosmology’s Big Message

_{David Klinghoffer
April 12, 2019

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

3}

Discovery Institute astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez identifies two important points about the Event Horizon Telescope’s (EHT) exciting achievement. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteriophages, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, enhancers, evolution, FCT, Functional-Coded-elemenT, insulators, lambda, LTEE, MacArthur Fellow, Michigan State University, National Academy of Sciences, OmpF, promoters, Richard Lenski, Science (journal), Sean Carroll, Telliamed Revisited, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

_{Michael Behe
April 12, 2019

Biology, Evolution

6}

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, Aristotle, base reality, computation, computer simulation, Franz Brentano, intelligent design, meaning, Michael Egnor, Microsoft Word, MIT, neuroscience, Scott Adams, simulation theory, virtual reality}

MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", Adventures in Poor Taste, APOB, Arthur Hunt, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, errors, Evolution News, Human Errors, John Harshman, John Jay College, Liu et al. (2014), Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, paranasal sinuses, Peaceful Science, PNAS, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Retraction Crisis, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Shiping Liu, sinuses, The Edge of Evolution}

Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors

_{Casey Luskin
April 11, 2019

Biology, Evolution

10}

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›

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post

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

8}

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, death, Emily Kurlinski, evolution, eyeglasses, hubris, humans, hypocrisy, ID the Future, interventions, podcast, Titanic, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Wesley Smith}

Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

_{David Klinghoffer
April 10, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, babies, behavior, college students, Darwinian biology, evolution, fairy tales, football, junk science, methodology, MIT, Neanderthals, PZ Myers, satire}

Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology

_{Michael Egnor
April 10, 2019

Biochemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

3}

Darwinian fairy tales about prehistoric Neanderthal proclivities and modern psychology are obvious junk science. Read More ›