Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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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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 ›

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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

13}

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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post

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 ›