Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", blacks, David Brooks, euphemism, Latinos, medical aid in dying, Native Americans, New York Times, physician-assisted suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness, whites}

David Brooks Forgets to Oppose Some Suicides

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 23, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Like so many others in the contemporary cultural milieu, Brooks remains in the shallow water by failing to grapple with the ubiquitous promotion of suicide we see all around us. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Christianity, computers, humans, Robert J. Marks II, Tower of Babel, Walter Bradley Center}

Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death

_{David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2019

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Dreams of god-like immortality achieved through uploading the mind have a serious drawback, one among others. A computer operates algorithmically, strictly so, whereas the mind does not. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ben Shapiro, faith, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, irrational, science, Stephen Meyer, Sunday Special, The Ben Shapiro Show, Twitter}

Stephen Meyer on the Ben Shapiro Show This Sunday: God, Intelligent Design, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2019

Intelligent Design

1}

ID has always been aimed at the rational mind and discriminating intellect, like Ben Shapiro’s. The irrational hive mind that dwells on Twitter will never get it. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amber Rice, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, degradative mutations, DNA, DNA repair, Dogs, E. coli, evolution, Evolution (journal), First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, glucose, Greg Lang, Journal of Molecular Evolution, laboratory, Lehigh University, Lenski lab, loss-of-function mutations, machines, malaria, microbes, nature, Plasmodium falciparum, polar bear, proteins, Richard Lenski, wooly mammoth, yeast}

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

_{Michael Behe
March 22, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
March 21, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genome sequencing, homology, Ian Musgrave, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, outboard motor, Pajaro Dunes, PNAS, proteins, similarity, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Michael Behe: A Man and His Critics

_{Ann Gauger
March 21, 2019

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Behe is not in a defensive posture, despite his critics. He continues to advance. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 21, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", abortion, adoption, Down syndrome, evolutionary theory, Iceland, materialism, United States, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization}

On World Down Syndrome Day, Consider Human Exceptionalism

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 21, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Evolutionary theory teaches the “survival of the fittest.” But caring for someone with Down Syndrome represents just the opposite way of thinking. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, "Out of Africa", Africa, Andrew McDiarmid, Asia, evolution, Günter Bechly, human origins, humanity, ID the Future, Israel, knowledge, Middle East, paleontology, podcast, rewriting, skepticism, stone tools}

Bechly: Lessons from the Ongoing “Rewrite” of Human Origins

_{David Klinghoffer
March 21, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

The traditional “Out of Africa” theory is being abandoned as weakly supported by evidence, in favor of a welter of other hypotheses. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, consciousness, Durham University, electrons, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, panpsychism, Philip Goff, sense organs}

Egnor Considers the Confession of a Panpsychist

_{David Klinghoffer
March 20, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Durham University philosopher Philip Goff poses the question, “Could Electrons Be Conscious?” Read More ›

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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
Tagged
, __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 ›