Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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, __k-review, animals, Bolivia, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, humans, law, legal standing, municipalities, nature, nature rights, policymakers, rationality, rivers, United States}

For Rivers, a “Right to Flow”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 26, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Most media with which I interact on this issue assume that advocating personhood for nature must be a fringe meme. Read More ›

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Date
August 25, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Brian Miller, cells, Denmark, enzymes, health, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jorn Dyerberg, metabolism, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, nutrition, omega-3 fatty acids, podcast}

Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

_{Science and Culture
August 25, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design

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It wasn’t until Jorn Dyerberg encountered ID researchers like Michael Behe that he gave it that name. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
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, __k-review, C-SPAN, California State University Stanislaus, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, FreedomFest, George Gilder, history, Hitler’s Religion, John West, Las Vegas, Richard Weikart, The Death of Humanity}

Weikart Will Discuss Hitler’s Religion, Death of Humanity, on C-SPAN, Sunday Night

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2018

Bioethics

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Discovery Institute’s Richard Weikart, George Gilder, and John West were speakers at last month’s FreedomFest at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
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, __k-review, Bible, BioLogos, Christians, deism, design detection, evolution, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Peaceful Science, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, The Blind Watchmaker, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Themelios, theology, Washington University}

Answering Joshua Swamidass: What Do Theistic Evolutionists Believe?

_{Ann Gauger
August 24, 2018

Faith & Science

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There are innumerable descriptions and definitions of theistic evolution. How things are phrased matters a lot. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Austin Hughes, BIO-Complexity, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, deletions, dependency graph, genes, genome, horizontal gene transfer, Inference (journal), metabolism, nematodes, Winston Ewert}

A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

_{Science and Culture
August 23, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Africa, baby, bats, blood clotting, diarrhea, Doctor's Diary (series), ductus arteriosus, egg, esophagus, hypoxia, Modernizing Darwin (series), oxygen, porcupine, scales, Southeast Asia, sperm, teeth, uterus}

Doctor’s Diary: Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature’s Foresight

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 23, 2018

Intelligent Design

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A newborn porcupine passes through its mother’s birth canal without causing her any injuries. How? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, Adam Marcus, Applied Mathematics Letters, carbon, compensation, earth, Elsevier, entropy, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Ivan Oransky, natural selection, open system, order, Physics Essays, pseudoscience, Retraction Watch, Second Law of Thermodynamics}

So, Who Is Doing “Pseudoscience”?

_{Granville Sewell
August 23, 2018

Evolution, Scientific Freedom

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You will be astonished by how corrupt science can become when reviewers are “very, very vigilant” to protect consensus science. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 22, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Christianity, Crossway, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, Günter Bechly, homeostasis, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, Michael Egnor, motivation, nematodes, neo-Darwinian theory, neurobiology, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Washington University, Wayne Grudem}

Answering Joshua Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: A Religious Agenda?

_{Ann Gauger
August 22, 2018

Faith & Science

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He defines himself as a Christian who affirms evolution, while also rejecting the name theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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Author
Olen R. Brown

Date
August 22, 2018

Categories
Astronomy
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
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, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, ATP, biosynthesis, blood, chemical reactions, chlorophyll, Darwinian evolution, enzymes, George Wald, hemoglobin, Lawrence Krauss, laws of nature, molecular biology, Olen R. Brown, supernatural, urea, vitalism}

Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?

_{Olen R. Brown
August 22, 2018

Astronomy, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Darwinian evolution, even in its 21st-century form, fails the formidable task of explaining how the first enzyme arose. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, 9/11 Truth, academic freedom, Alex Jones, autism, conspiracy theory, correlation, creationism, Current Biology, Darwinists, evolution, media, Michael Egnor, South Dakota, teleology}

Introducing the New “Conspiracism” Canard

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Here’s a fresh twist on efforts to evade a debate about design in nature by associating ID with tendencies in thought that many people find disreputable. Read More ›