Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 27, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Aquinas and Evolution, Aquinas.design, Aristotelianism, atheism, Catholicism and Evolution, Darwinism, Darwinists, evolution, Father Michael Chaberek, hylomorphism, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, materialism, Phillip E. Johnson, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Richard Lewontin, Roman Catholic, Scientific Enlightenment, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Werner Heisenberg}

A Superb New Website: Introducing Aquinas.Design

_{Michael Egnor
July 27, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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There is an ongoing debate about intelligent design in the Thomist system. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Harvard University, Henri Bergson, idealism, John Elof Boodin, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, paleontology, pantheism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, Stephen Hawking, William James}

Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2018

Evolution, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, cerebral palsy, compassion, culture, death, disability, doctors, Justin Trudeau, murder, Robert Latimer, trial, Tylenol}

Murderer Seeks Clemency with Inventive “Right to Die” Argument

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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In 1993, while most of his family was away at church, Robert Latimer took his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, disabled by cerebral palsy, out to the barn. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, agency, brain, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, free will, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, patients, science, stimulation, truth, Wilder Penfield}

Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield on Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
July 26, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Materialists claim that neuroscience has demonstrated that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Binghamton University, biologic institute, Homo sapiens, John Elof Boodin, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural selection, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, teleology, vitalism}

Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 26, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Bertalanffy’s systems-based approach continued under George Klir, and is carried on today by Dr. Richard Sternberg, who studied under Klir. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, computers, Discovery Institute, education, farming, good, human beings, hunter-gatherers, Jay Richards, labor, robots, schools, teachers, The Human Advantage, unemployment, Wall Street Journal}

Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2018

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, socialism, special creation, stereotypes, theism, theistic evolution, University of Alabama Press, Victorian England}

Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anagenesis, anthropocentrism, cladogenesis, creationism, Darwinism, Ernst Mayr, Günter Wagner, Hilary Putnam, Julian Huxley, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural theology, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Peter Bowler, positivism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vienna Circle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr

_{Michael Flannery
July 25, 2018

Evolution

5}

Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism. Read More ›

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Date
July 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, BIO-Complexity, biologic institute, Charles Darwin, dependency graph, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genera, genetic data, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Metazoa, Neanderthals, Oregon State University, scientific community, software, software engineering, species, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, zebra finch, zebrafish}

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

_{Science and Culture
July 24, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, bacteria, Christianity, Darwinian, evolution, faith, finches, Finding Darwin's God, fossil record, genes, Günter Bechly, Günter Wagner, hyenas, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, materialism, Michael Behe, Research, Richard Sternberg, science, Seattle, Summer Seminars, theism, whales}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Expand Students’ Intellectual Horizons

_{Brian Miller
July 23, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics, Science Education

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A primary reason why many biologists never question the standard evolutionary model is their very limited training in mathematics. Read More ›