Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, common ancestor, common descent, common design, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, DNA, genetic similarity, genome, humans, mice, molecular clock, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, sequencing, theistic evolution, Washington University, Winston Ewert}

Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, duty to die, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, Hastings Center Report, health, health insurance, John Hardwig, life, medical care, medicine, rationing, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", asphyxiation, baby, birth, brain, breathing, cells, cervix, development, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, embryo, fingerprints, hypoxia, intelligent design, lungs, Modernizing Darwin (series), mother, mutations, neonatal intensive care, neurons, organs, oxygen, placenta, smiling, surgery, umbilical cord, uterus, voice, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 23, 2018

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, altruism, animals, artificial intelligence, bonobos, Carl Zimmer, evolution, humans, intellect, just-so stories, machines, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, tools, toys, will}

Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
September 21, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, calculations, computer, Darwinian evolution, dolphin, dragonfly, Hans Vodder, Howard J. Van Till, Human, improbability, intelligent design, monkey, natural causes, natural law, organisms, sculpture, statisticians, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution

_{Douglas Axe
September 21, 2018

Evolution

6}

As a theistic evolutionist, Hans Vodder thinks God may well have used Darwinian evolution to create the full diversity of life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 21, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", evolution, Evolution News, Human Errors, intelligent design, maxillary sinus, Nathan Lents, neuroscience, paranasal sinuses, S. Joshua Swamidass, sinuses, terminology, Wall Street Journal}

Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: “Bad Design” Arguments Don’t Work

_{David Klinghoffer
September 21, 2018

Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design

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It’s good to be able to report progress. Read More ›

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Date
September 21, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, ctenophores, Darwinians, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, fossils, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), phyla, placozoans, PNAS, sponges, trilobites}

Still More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

_{Science and Culture
September 21, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Trilobites look up silently from their Burgess Shale rock slabs, with sad eyes, asking, “Where did I come from?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, assumptions, human beings, human dignity, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, methodological naturalism, Nonsense of a High Order, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick, scientific data, scientists, Stephen Hawking}

Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham

_{David Klinghoffer
September 20, 2018

Evolution, Philosophy, Technology

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Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received. Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, Current Biology, Ediacaran animals, Great Ordovician Biodiversification, jello, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, paleobiology, radiodont, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, University of Oxford}

More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

_{Science and Culture
September 20, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new statistical study of impacts on the moon concludes that the appearance of an increase was an artifact of biased sampling. Read More ›

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Date
September 19, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Children of Light, Fire-Maker, Michael Denton, The Wonder of Water}

Denton’s Children of Light Forthcoming; Join Us at Seattle Book Launch!

_{Science and Culture
September 19, 2018

Intelligent Design, Science

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Have you ever considered how our tiny corner of the universe somehow cradles fragile mankind? Read More ›