Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 30, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, academic misconduct, altruism, Associated Press, Cornell University, evolution, food, investigation, James Madison University, scientific method, STEM education, Washington Post}

Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 30, 2018

Science Education

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Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as "a big book of Important Truths"? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, artificial intelligence, books, brain, brain function, Discovery Institute, eyes, hands, human beings, insults, Jeffrey Shallit, learning, legs, lungs, machines, materialism, mental function, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Neural Networks, organs, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 28, 2018

Categories
Science Education
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, __k-review, Arizona, Board of Education, education, emotions, evolution, inquiry, learning, media, science, science standards, Texas}

In Arizona, Science Education Goes to a Vote

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 28, 2018

Science Education

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Recently, there has been fuss over a working group meeting addressing the state's evolution standards. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 28, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", "poor design", body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Marshall, Denis Lamoureux, development, embryology, engineers, evolution, fossil record, information, intelligent design, lens, materialism, theistic evolution}

Denis Lamoureux on the God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy

_{Brian Miller
September 28, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The universe is like a musical instrument that was designed to interact with its designer. Read More ›

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Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review, American Museum of Natural History, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, documentary, eugenics, history, Human Zoos, ID the Future, John West, master race, podcast, pseudoscience, Racism, United States}

When the American Museum of Natural History Promoted Eugenics

_{Science and Culture
September 27, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

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Hear about a time when a cherished American institution warmly endorsed Darwinian-inspired efforts to breed a master race. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
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, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, __k-review, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Darwin's Doubt, Deity, designer, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith, Great Minds with Michael Medved, Judaism, Michael Medved, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theism}

Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier: The Return of the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2018

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Meyer is well known as a leading proponent of ID, the scientific alternative to theories of unguided evolution. He talks here about his exciting and important next book. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, academics, atheism, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, deism, Denis Lamoureux, dialogue, dice, earthquake, Energy, entropy, Lawrence Krauss, nature, quantum fluctuations, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology}

A Deist in Christian Clothing?

_{Brian Miller
September 26, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science

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Denis Lamoureux unwittingly encourages Christians to embrace not a meaningful dialogue between faith and science but a self-imposed intellectual captivity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biotechnology, blood cells, cloning, CRISPR, DNA, embryos, George W. Bush, pandemic, sperm}

Mass Human Cloning May Soon Be Upon Us

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Human cloning has been accomplished, but the field remains generally stalled because of a shortage of human eggs. Read More ›

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Date
September 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, citations, Colin Reeves, Denis Lamoureux, dialogue, Evolution News, evolutionary science, Review, S. Joshua Swamidass, science, theistic evolution, Themelios, theology, Washington University}

Response to Swamidass: Sniffing at 700+ Citations of Mainstream Scientific Literature

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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He focuses on one subtopic of one chapter, dismissing the rest of the scientific content of the book as failing to engage with mainstream science. Read More ›