Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
January 28, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, animal kingdom, beauty, butterfly wings, cholesterol, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, law, literature, mind, music, mutations, natural selection, nutrition, sexual selection}

Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

_{Michael Behe
January 28, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, disorder, E. coli, English, evolution, genes, humans, malaria, Michael Behe, natural processes, natural selection, nature, order, Richard Lenski, Spanish, The Edge of Evolution, universe}

Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves

_{Granville Sewell
January 27, 2019

Evolution

2}

Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin-skeptics, education, Flat Earth myth, flyover country, high school students, ID the Future, lunar eclipse, Michael Keas, Middle Ages, Moon, Myth of the Dark Ages, pedagogy, podcast, Texas State Board of Education}

Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 25, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, anti-humanism, Chippewa, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, environmentalism, flora, Frank Bibeau, manoomin, nature, Ojibwe, right to life}

A Right to Life — For Wild Rice

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 25, 2019

Bioethics

3}

I believe that time is growing short to throttle this advocacy thrust. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 25, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, Brian Miller, conflict myth, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Devolves, Eric Metaxas, faith, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Jay Richards, John West, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, Rice University, science, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

Dallas and Westminster Conferences Tackle Science-Religion “Warfare Myth”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 25, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

2}

As Jay Richards recounts, James Tour was absolutely “on fire” at the Dallas Conference, ferociously critiquing facile materialist origin-of-life theories. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 25, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, conservatism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theory, emotions, homework, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, Michael Behe, National Review, Nature (journal), novelty, PNAS, Science (journal), Scott Minnich, University of Idaho, William F. Buckley Jr.}

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

_{David Klinghoffer
January 25, 2019

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Ajit Varki, Albert Einstein, animals, Anolis lizard, bread, cheese, chimpanzees, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, fire, human origins, humans, intelligence, Internet, iPhone, John West, Neanderthals, Noam Chomsky, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Thomas Nagel, tools, University of Pennsylvania}

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

_{Ann Gauger
January 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

14}

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, budding yeast, cells, Creative Evolution, cytoplasm, function, intelligent design, introns, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, mRNA, Nature (journal), Oxford University Press, predictions, proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, splicing, The Myth of Junk DNA, W. Ford Doolittle}

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2019

Intelligent Design

6}

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 23, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Annie Hall, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, Marshall McLuhan}

Michael Behe’s Marshall McLuhan Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
January 23, 2019

Intelligent Design

1}

It's like the scene from Annie Hall with Kevin Williamson as the pretentious moviegoer in line with Woody Allen. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 23, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Bill Nye, Christianity, cosmos, faith, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, Mike Keas, Moshe Averick, Stephen Hawking, Unbelievable}

In Unbelievable, Science Historian Michael Keas Debunks the Atheist “Big Myth”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 23, 2019

Physical Sciences

2}

Hawking, Nye and other atheists argue that because the universe is so large, a God interested in a relationship with us seems impossible. Read More ›