Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, adult stem cells, bioethicis, bone marrow, clinical trials, Food and Drug Administration, George W. Bush, human cloning, journalism, multiple sclerosis, scientists}

Past Years of Hype Notwithstanding, Adult Stem Cells Are Now the “Gold Standard”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Remember this the next time ideologically driven scientists, bioethicists, and their media water carriers seek to drive public opinion. Read More ›

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Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, crop circles, DNA, dragline silk, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, fairy circles, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, milkweed, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, proteasomes, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

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So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Genetics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, agnostic, Ann Gauger, Brian Miller, Dartmouth College, Darwin Devolves, East Coast, faith, intelligent design, John West, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, National Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, Richard Lenski, science, Templeton Prize, Westminster Conference}

No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference

_{David Klinghoffer
March 20, 2019

Biology, Faith & Science, Genetics, Physics

3}

As I’m writing this I’ve been reacquainting myself with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, who just won the year’s prestigious, $1.5 million Templeton Prize. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, Ann Gauger, Aristotle, Christian colleges, college admissions, Dartmouth College, Dennis Prager, Douglas Axe, evolution, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Ivy League, Johannes Kepler, John West, Jonathan Wells, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — A Note to Parents; And an Upcoming Deadline

_{David Klinghoffer
March 19, 2019

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

Think of it: Wealthy parents are bribing their kids’ way into universities where the ultimate mystery of existence doesn’t even get a hearing. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, determinism, health, intelligent design, intention, learning, Mount Rainier, music, musicians, Puget Sound, randomness, running, specified complexity, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Is All Around Us

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Ann Gauger, biotechnology, chance, chemical evolution, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, enzymes, error catastrophe, evolution, Freeman Dyson, Gandalf, hydrothermal vents, John Maynard Smith, JPL, Leslie Orgel, Manfred Eigen, Mars, Michael Russell, NASA, natural selection, Nature (journal), Nobel laureates, nucleic acid, prebiotic Earth, RNA, Robert Shapiro, Signature in the Cell, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, William A. Dembski}

Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show

_{Science and Culture
March 19, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Aristotle, cosmos, creator, Darwin Devolves, evolution, football, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, physical reality, religion, science, Stephen Hawking, theology, Unbelievable, universe, Washington Post}

Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

_{David Klinghoffer
March 18, 2019

Astronomy, Biology, Evolution, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

3}

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, architecture, bioluminescence, Biomimetics, carcinology, click beetle, crustaceans, Darwin Devolves, entomology, France, froghopper, Harrison Tasoff, hinge, humidity, insects, John Dabiri, krill, leafhopper, medicine, mucus, National Science Foundation, ostracods, Paris, planthopper, PNAS, robots, Stanford University, temperature, termite mound, termites, UC Santa Barbara}

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

7}

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review}

Germ-Line Gene Editing Will Never Be Safe

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The brains of two babies who were germ-line gene edited using the CRISPR process — meaning the engineered genetic changes will flow down the generations. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 16, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, diabetes, doctors, euthanasia, homicide, hospital, lethal injection, media, nihilism, nurses, suicide, values}

At the Euthanasia Party

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 16, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Is this kind of thing right or wrong? Some may see it as empowering, dying “his own way,” as the media continually put it. Read More ›