Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
January 23, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biologists, C.S. Lewis, conservatives, Criticism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, evolution, intelligent design, invisible, James A. Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, John Milton, Kevin Williamson, logic, National Review, poetry, T.S. Eliot}

On Intelligent Design, Do Your Own Homework. Make Up Your Own Mind.

_{Michael Behe
January 23, 2019

Evolution

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C.S. Lewis encountered an objection to his literary criticism analogous to Kevin Williamson’s and explored its underlying logic. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Darwinian theory, David Klinghoffer, debate, Douglas Axe, human life, ideology, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kevin Williamson, lawyers, Michael Behe, natural selection, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Research, science, Stephen Meyer, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __nedited, Cambrian Explosion, complexity, Darwinism, fact-checking, Gerd Müller, incorrigibility, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Neo-Darwinism, novelty, peer-reviewed, peer-reviewed literature, University of Vienna}

Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

_{David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Dennis Prager, history, laymen, myths, religion, science, Unbelievable}

Mike Keas on the Dennis Prager Show, 11 AM Pacific Time

_{David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Isn’t it interesting that some laymen are able to interact with the relevant scientific ideas here — Prager does — while others plug their ears and refuse to think about it. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Arabic, atheism, Bede, cathedrals, Euclid, eyeglasses, Galileo Galilei, Greek, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Latin, Literal Commentary on Genesis, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Rome, Saint Augustine, scientific revolution, The Nature of Things, Unbelievable, universities, University of Bologna, Walter Laird}

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
January 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

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Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, Christianity, earth, Flat Earth myth, geocentrism, heliocentrism, historians, Indiana, lunar eclipse, Michael Keas, Moon, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Romans, Unbelievable}

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 21, 2019

Astronomy, Physical Sciences

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Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon. Read More ›