Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur Hunt, Darwin Devolves, data, degradative mutations, devolution, function, genes, Jerry Coyne, Liu et al. (2014), Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu, webinar}

Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

_{Casey Luskin
April 10, 2019

Evolution

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The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›

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Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, comb jelly, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian processes, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, geochemistry, Live Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, paleontology, radiations, Stephen Meyer, stratigraphy, trilobite}

Cambrian Explosion Excuses: Theme and Variations

_{Science and Culture
April 9, 2019

Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design

9}

It’s circular: “Because evolution innovates things, it will innovate things if given the opportunity.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Bill Nye, cosmic fine-tuning, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, Eric Metaxas, intelligent design, life, media, miracles, narrative, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, universe, Wall Street Journal}

Metaxas: A “Media Blackout” on the “Miracle of the Universe”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 9, 2019

Physical Sciences

3}

You are more likely to hear proponents of intelligent design being chastised even by media that ought to know better. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), Darwin Devolves, genes, Liu et al. (2014), methodology, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

_{Casey Luskin
April 9, 2019

Evolution

9}

The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, doppelgänger, Erwin Schrödinger, First Way, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

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The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, assisted suicide, Compassion and Choices, dementia, doctors, dying, eating, euthanasia, feeding tube, fluids, food, Hemlock Society, interpretation, nourishment, nurses, patients, treatment}

“Starve Me” Advance Directive Would Be Immoral

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Many of these provisions are, to say the least, subject to interpretation. And people with dementia may refuse food one meal, and accept the next. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, degradative mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
April 8, 2019

Evolution

20}

Michael Behe correctly interpreted a paper by Liu et al. and followed its methodology, whereas his critics, Lents and Hunt, did not. Read More ›

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Date
April 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ID the Future, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, natural selection, Paul Nelson, podcast, randomness, Richard Dawkins, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

_{Science and Culture
April 7, 2019

Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences

1}

As Lönnig points out, Richard Dawkins and others are at great pains to deny the connection. Why would that be? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, action potentials, alien hand syndrome, appetite, Bradley Center, brain, Eric Metaxas, free will, health, intellect, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, patients, physical processes, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, volition, will}

Dr. Egnor on Free Will and the “Alien Hand”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

A reader asked whether this disproves the unity and freedom of the will. It appears that the patient wills two things simultaneously: getting dressed and getting undressed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›