Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Darwinian theory, Europeans, From Darwin to Hitler, history, inequality, James Watson, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, Nazism, neo-Nazism, Nobel Prize, Racism, Richard Spencer, Steven Pinker}

Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

_{Richard Weikart
July 11, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

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Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, Dover trial, elitism, eugenics, Expelled (movie), foxes, intelligent design, Internet, Lewis Wolpert, lions, Michael Ruse, multiverse, post-modernism, pseudoscience, Reformation, Steve Fuller, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, University of Warwick}

Sociologist Steve Fuller: How ID Foxes Can Beat the Darwinian Lions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Sociology

10}

University of Warwick sociologist Steve Fuller is one of the few researchers in his field who knows much about intelligent design and the controversy it ignites. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, automobiles, cars, education, evolution, Ford Model T, Granville Sewell, Louisiana, Louisiana Science Education Act, natural selection, placental mammals, retaliation, students, teachers}

Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University

_{David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2018

Evolution, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

This has got to be one of the dopiest, most simple-minded presentations of the subject that I’ve seen. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Discovery Institute, George Montañez, human beings, Jay Richards, Michael Egnor, Museum of Flight, Pandora’s box, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Seattle, smart machines, Stephen Hawking, The Human Advantage, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, William A. Dembski, William Allen Theater}

Artificial Intelligence Is a Pandora’s Box. What’s in There? Find Out Tomorrow!

_{David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Get a glimpse at 7:30 pm as we live-stream Discovery Institute's launch of the new Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Read More ›

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Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Arabidopsis, Barbara McClintock, Cell (journal), coding, David Klinghoffer, Developmental Cell, ENCODE, epigenetics, genes, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Kevin Laland, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, Science (journal), The Myth of Junk DNA, transposons, UC San Francisco}

As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

_{Science and Culture
July 10, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Brigham Young University, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinian theory, development, Discovery Institute, DNA, embryology, evolution, genes, homologous features, homologous genes, pseudonym, Research, Tom Bethell, UC Berkeley}

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

_{Jonathan Wells
July 9, 2018

Biology, Evolution

2}

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, aliens, Ann Gauger, bats, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinian evolution, Expelled (movie), Francis Crick, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialists, multiverse, octopuses, panspermia, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Chaffee}

Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

_{David Klinghoffer
July 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amber, Brazil, cockroach, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Gondwana, Günter Bechly, holotype, Myanmar, paleontology}

This Critter Is Named for Günter Bechly

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The photo above is another species of the same genus that Dr. Bechly established in 2007. Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Aarhus University, alternative splicing, Cell Reports, cryptology, Denmark, encryption, epigenetic code, gene regulation, intelligent design, introns, programmers, RNA, splicing, steganography}

Encryption System Found in Genes

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

6}

A clever method of RNA editing may explain the role of introns embedded in genes, and points to even higher levels of programming. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, doctors, emergency room, health care, hospice, medicine, mental health, oncology, patients, suicide crisis, terminal illness}

“Zero Suicide” Project Forgets about Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

It rarely fails. I see a news story lauding a suicide-prevention program. But then I check it out. Read More ›