Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

5}

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

2}

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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post

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

3}

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

1}

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

5}

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

2}

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, careerism, credentialism, Darwinists, groupthink, H.L. Mencken, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, scientists, William F. Buckley Jr.}

Intelligent Design as “Daft Rube-Bait”: Round 2 with Kevin Williamson

_{David Klinghoffer
January 21, 2019

Intelligent Design

2}

“He is saying that critics of Darwin should allow themselves to be abused — by non-scientists like Kevin Williamson — and just take it.” Read More ›

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Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, bestseller, Dallas, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Eric Metaxas, Facebook, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Witt, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, Wall Street Journal}

Dallas Conference on Science and Faith Is a Hit, as Meyer, Metaxas, Tour Welcome Surprise Guest

_{Science and Culture
January 21, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

3}

More than a thousand people filled Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas this past weekend. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", budding yeast, evolution, genome, John Mattick, junk DNA, MIT, molecular biology, mRNAs, Nature (journal), RNA, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Scientific American, splicing}

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 21, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›