Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, American Scientific Affiliation, BioLogos, Chicago, Evangelical Christians, faith, Genesis, Hebrew, human origins, monogenism, Roman Catholic, S. Joshua Swamidass, Templeton Foundation, theology}

Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins

_{Ann Gauger
August 9, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, climate change, cosmos, evolution, history, ID the Future, ideology, intelligent design, life, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast, science, science denial, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Alabama Press, X Club}

New Book Offers History as an Antidote to the Paralyzing “Science-Denier” Label

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Whether the subject is evolution or climate change, the purpose of accusing someone of “science-denial” is to keep that person in line. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, butterflies, dinosaurs, Doctor's Diary (series), Dogs, dolphins, evolution, fireflies, fossils, giraffes, Greeks, horse, intelligent design, mammals, Modernizing Darwin (series), natural selection, octopuses, On the Origin of Species, Romans, skunks, viruses, whales, woodpeckers}

Doctor’s Diary: Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, abortion, Australia, authoritarianism, Canada, conscientious objection, doctors, health care, Hippocratic Oath, human rights, medical conscience, medicine, nurses, Ontario, pharmacists, progressive, suicide}

The Drive to Obliterate “Medical Conscience”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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An international effort seeks to transform abortion into a positive right, which would require the state to guarantee access. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, christian, conservative, Darwin Day in America, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute Press, history, intelligent design, John Magens Mello, John West, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, socialist, teleology, The World of Life, Traipsing Into Evolution, University of Alabama, William Dembksi}

Discovering Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
August 8, 2018

Intelligent Design

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For those who wish to caricature the theory of intelligent design, Wallace becomes a very inconvenient historical figure. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Baptists, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, finch beaks, Georgia, Glenn Branch, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), National Museum of Natural History, Next Generation Science Standards, public education, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins Foundation, science, Scientific American, teachers, theology, vestigial structures}

Using Religion to Push Evolution in Public School Biology Class — What Could Go Wrong?

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 7, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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A much better approach would be no religion in biology class, and more science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
August 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, animal rights, animals, bioengineering, blood vessels, cell lines, computers, euthanasia, George W. Bush, hearts, Human, kidneys, lungs, organ transplant, pigs, Research, rodents, Science News, scientists, stem cells, United States}

Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, ancestors, automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, Boeing, carnivorous plants, classes, convergence, Cornelius Hunter, dependency graph, DNA, echolocation, evolution, Ford, GPS systems, intelligent design, jets, Mathematical Intelligencer, modules, orders, phyla, programmer, software, textbooks, Tree of Life, whales, Winston Ewert}

More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

_{Granville Sewell
August 6, 2018

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, contraception, creation, Darwinism, dignity, intelligent design, life, materialists, Moral Law, natural law, nature, purpose, respect, Roman Catholic, sexuality, teleology, women}

Humanae Vitae and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor
August 6, 2018

Biology, Ethics, Faith & Science

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It was, and is, the most controversial Catholic document of the past century, and perhaps of any century. Read More ›