Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
July 12, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Constitution, David French, evolutionary theory, free speech, gay rights, National Review, skepticism, Wisconsin}

In Wisconsin, a Win for Academic Freedom

_{Sarah Chaffee
July 12, 2018

Ethics, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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A few aspects of this catch my attention as pertinent to our concerns here. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 12, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adultery, anti-Semitism, behavior, Darwinian theory, E.O. Wilson, evolution, evolutionary ethics, Harvard University, homosexuality, humans, infanticide, just-so stories, Kevin MacDonald, race, Racism, rape, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, The Death of Humanity}

Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

_{Richard Weikart
July 12, 2018

Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that infanticide has biological roots. He claims that ancient humans were picky about which babies they would raise to maturity. Read More ›

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Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Ira Berkowitz, Jerry Coyne, Judaism, Nonsense of a High Order, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick}

Listen: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

_{Science and Culture
July 11, 2018

Faith & Science

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Rabbi Moshe Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ›