Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
January 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, cetaceans, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, DNA, dolphins, education, fruit flies, humans, mice, molecular sequences, mutations, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian theory, orphan genes, phylogeny, primates, Tree of Life, University of Utah, video, water fleas, whales, yeast}

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

_{Jonathan Wells
January 4, 2019

Evolution, Science Education

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If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, E.O. Wilson, eugenics, Francis Collins, human experimentation, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, morality, Owen Gingerich, Racism, Scientific American, scientific revolution, The Death of Humanity, Thomas Jefferson, warfare}

Why Michael Shermer’s “Case for Scientific Humanism” Fails

_{Richard Weikart
January 4, 2019

Ethics, Faith & Science

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Shermer tries to rewrite history by insisting that science is built on atheistic assumptions. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, biologists, Charles Darwin, common descent, complexity, computer scientists, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph, engines, evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, human intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Behe, natural selection, neuroevolution, simulations, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, Winston Ewert}

Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 3, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, civilization, culture, David Gelernter, education, Great Minds with Michael Medved, intelligent design, Michael Medved, nature, Yale University, young people}

Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 3, 2019

Intelligent Design, Science Education

1}

The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 2, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Discovery Institute, Eric Metaxas, James Tour, Jay Richards, Pam Bailey, registration, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet}

Preview Stephen Meyer’s Next Book: Register for Dallas Conference Before It Sells Out

_{David Klinghoffer
January 2, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

1}

There will be walk-up tickets available, provided that the conference is not sold out, and it is headed in that direction now. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 2, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, altruism, beauty, bees, California, crucifix, E.O. Wilson, Garden of Eden, goodness, group selection, J.P. Moreland, kin selection, logic, materialism, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, natural selection, neo-Darwinian processes, Neo-Darwinism, Paris, population genetics, prejudice, transcendentals, truth}

The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Ann Gauger
January 2, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, evolution, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ID the Future, ideology, intellignet design, Nancy Pearcey, podcast, scientific revolution}

Nancy Pearcey Answers the Charge: “You Guys Lost”

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

1}

“Without Hegel there would have been no Darwin,” Pearcey explains. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
January 1, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, archeology, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, code, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, digital code, DNA, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, functional information, Guillermo Gonzalez, Henry Quastler, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Leroy Hood, nanotechnology, Paul Davies, radio, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Rosetta Stone, sequence hypothesis, SETI, Signature in the Cell, specification, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski}

Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2019

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›

The crumbling foundation of the house. Exposed house foundation with soil erosion.

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 31, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", ALX1, bacteria, cichlid fishes, citrate, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian evolution, devolution, evolution, fiber optic cables, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, Human Errors, intelligent design, Lake Victoria, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, natural selection, oxygen, Peaceful Science, Richard Lenski}

#2 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Behe’s Darwin Devolves Topples Foundational Claim of Evolution

_{Brian Miller
December 31, 2018

Evolution

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The evidence commonly cited to argue for evolution’s ability to drive large-scale transformations is almost always circular. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Alain Beauvilain, burial, Chad, Darwinian paradigm, femur, fossils, gorilla, hominid, human origins, Israel, John Hawks, mandible, Miocene, Misliya cave, paleoanthropology, Sahara Desert, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Stony Brook University}

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›