Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Canada, contraception, Court of Appeals, doctors, euthanasia, First Amendment, freedom of religion, health care, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medical conscience, Ontario, patients, religious beliefs, Roman Catholic}

Canada Court: Doctors Must Euthanize, Abort, or Refer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 21, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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The culture of death brooks no dissent. In Canada, doctors have been ordered to bend the knee. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, common descent, creationism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, divine image, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Homo erectus, human origins, humans, intelligent design, John Derbyshire, materialism, Neanderthals, Race Realism, Racism, savages, soul, subhumans, The Descent of Man, Walter Bradley Center}

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
May 21, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›

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Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, adenosine triphosphate, amino-acid sequences, ATP synthase, Douglas Axe, eukaryotic cells, hydrolysis, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Irreducible Complexity, John E. Walker, mitochondria, molecular motor, Nobel Prize, PNAS, polypeptides, proteins, rotary engine, sequence hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Undeniable (book)}

Orderly Disorder: A Molecular Motor Regulated by IDP

_{Science & Culture
May 21, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are common in cells. Can a disordered protein regulate a molecular motor? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, conservatives, evolution, From Darwin to Hitler, guilt by association, hypocrisy, John Derbyshire, Michael Behe, National Review, Race Realism, Racism, Razib Khan, Richard Weikart, The Unz Review}

The Return of John Derbyshire

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Genetics

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The thread of what the alt-right calls “Race Realism” has never been completely absent from Darwinian theorizing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, Bill Nye, Center for Science and Culture, despair, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, scientific racism, Stephen Meyer, suicide}

Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2019

Intelligent Design

4}

The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, advance directive, assisted suicide, authoritarianism, circumcision, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medical conscience, New York Times, patients, puberty}

Medical Conscience for Me, but Not for Thee

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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The more elective the desired intervention, the greater should be the right of medical conscience. Read More ›

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Date
May 18, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, BBC News, Biomimetics, Central America, engineers, fireflies, heat, intellignet design}

Biomimetics: Efficient Lights and a Lesson from Fireflies

_{Science & Culture
May 18, 2019

Intelligent Design

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A simple trick used by fireflies turned out to dramatically increase the light output of a test bulb designed by Belgian physicist Jean-Pol Vigneron. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 17, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, foresight, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, mass spectrometry, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize}

Marcos Eberlin: Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
May 17, 2019

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Eberlin cites the quip that “evolution hopes you don’t know chemistry.” But intelligent design hopes you do! Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 17, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Debating Darwin's Doubt, evolution, foresight, Holocaust denial, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Judaism, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, motives, Old Testament, Paul Nelson, Razib Khan}

Two Ways for ID Critics, Both Lame

_{David Klinghoffer
May 17, 2019

Intelligent Design

3}

As others have said before me, one of the first things you notice about ID critics is the low level of most of their critiques. Read More ›

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Date
May 17, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cobalt, Darwinists, Dickinsonia, evolution, Illustra Media, logic, materialists, math, nickel, Origin, Second Law of Thermodynamics, snowball Earth, vitalism, zinc}

Darwinism as Pantheism or Vitalism

_{Science & Culture
May 17, 2019

Evolution, Philosophy

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That evolutionary scientists are materialists seems to be belied by the way some of them write. Read More ›