Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 24, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, China, Communist Party, heart, human rights, kidney, liver, New Scientist, organs, Retraction Watch}

Fifteen Science Papers Retracted Over China Illegal Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 24, 2019

Ethics, Medicine

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Human-rights activists have castigated China for allowing this organ bazaar for years. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, cell membrane, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Marcos Eberlin, Nobel laureates, podcast, protein folding, Rice University, Science Uprising, synthetic organic chemistry}

Marcos Eberlin: Unguided Origin of Life “Sold to Us,” but Its Assumptions Are “Insane”

_{Science & Culture
August 23, 2019

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

It’s time now to “surrender to the data,” which as he argues, points to the works of foresight and planning in the origin of the first life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, “nones”, anxiety, Christianity, computer science, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, First Things, Genesis, George Weigel, Hoover Institution, intellectuals, intelligent design, John Paul II, Peter Robinson, Stephen Meyer, The Claremont Review of Books, The Stream, Yale University}

George Weigel, Biographer of John Paul II, Takes Note of David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

For a major intellectual like this to publicly reject evolutionary theory naturally catches the attention of other major intellectuals. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, adrenaline, buffalo, cats, chimpanzees, Doctor's Diary (series), Dogs, dolphins, eggs, evolutionary tree, fertilization, Genesis, humans, intelligent design, intimacy, Judaism, mammals, Neanderthals, ovaries, ovum, PNAS, sex, sperm, spiders}

Doctor’s Diary: The Human Difference and the Design of Sex

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

It’s safe to say that human intimacy, at its best, surpasses that of any animal, even the most intelligent. Read More ›

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Date
August 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, ADP, aging, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, cells, Darwin Devolves, efficiency, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Penn State, physiology, PNAS, rotary engine}

Design for ATP Extends Beyond the Rotary Engine

_{Science & Culture
August 21, 2019

Intelligent Design

9}

New discoveries explore the astonishing efficiency of the cell’s rotary engine ATP synthase, and describe new roles for other motors that deliver ATP. Read More ›

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Date
August 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, Douglas Futuyma, education, evolution, Francis Collins, George Williams, human nature, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, methodological naturalism, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem

_{Science & Culture
August 20, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Science Education

7}

A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

6}

We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›

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Date
August 18, 2019

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, behavior, chimpanzees, culture, Darwinian mechanisms, Human Evolution (journal), humans, ID the Future, mutations, physiology, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Wesley Smith}

More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Anatomy and Behavior

_{Science & Culture
August 18, 2019

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

It seems obvious: humans and chimps differ markedly. But as Wesley Smith noted yesterday, it is not so obvious to the editors of Human Evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal rights, animal welfare, bonobos, chimpanzees, currency, Eugene M. Fahey, genocide, habeas corpus, Holocaust, hominins, Human Evolution (journal), human rights, inflation, Jane Goodall, National Institutes of Health, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood}

Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

8}

A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, August Weismann, Barry Hall, blasphemy, central dogma, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, dogmatism, evidence, Francis Crick, heresy, ideology, John Cairns, Lamarckian theory, Luther College, Martin Luther, Matti Leisola, Max Delbrück, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Richard Lenski, Roman Catholic, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 16, 2019

Evolution

6}

Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›