Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfie Evans, babies, BBC, Charlie Gard, doctors, futile care, health-care rationing, Italy, life support, medicine, technocracy, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Braveheart, culture, Discovery Institute, Easter, entertainment, faith, Hollywood, materialism, Michael Medved, music, Passover, podcast, Randall Wallace, Secretariat, spirit, storytelling, We Were Soldiers, wind}

Great Minds, Great Spirits: Wallace and Medved on the Link Between Storytelling and Faith

_{David Klinghoffer
March 29, 2018

Bioethics, Faith & Science

2}

We’re particularly pleased with this episode’s timing because it comes as Easter and Passover are upon us this weekend. Read More ›

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Date
March 28, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, archaellum, bacterial flagellum, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, Cloudina, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Ediacaran, eukaryotes, gene regulatory networks, Graham Budd, Great Oxidation Event, Greenland, oceans, oxygen theory, paleontology, Quanta, slime theory}

Cambrian Explosion Shrapnel Still Hitting Evolutionary Scenarios

_{Science and Culture
March 28, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Darwinian paleontologists try model after contradictory model to get blind chance to invent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, application, application deadline, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, Douglas Axe, education, graduate students, Günter Bechly, instructors, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Richard Sternberg, scholars, scientists, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, undergraduates}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — A Week in Seattle FREE — But You Must Apply by April 3

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2018

Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

This is how we train the next generation of scientists and scholars in the leadership of the ID movement. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, C.S. Lewis, Dennis Venema, documentary, evolution, fossils, human life, human origins, human rights, Human Zoos, intelligent design, John West, science, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology}

Join Us: Major Conference on Theistic Evolution, April 6-7 in Greater Philadelphia

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Sociology

3}

Don't miss a fascinating two-day discussion of human origins and the fossil record, human rights and human life, rebranded science and incoherent theology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, Dallas, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary theory, experience, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, intelligent design, laboratory, Matti Leisola, microorganisms, natural selection, proteins, yeast}

How Biochemist Matti Leisola’s Lab Experience Persuaded Him of Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2018

Biochemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

3}

Leisola describes a humble example — the enzymes in washing powder we use in the laundry, with the ability to degrade proteins. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, amino acids, Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, Darwin's Doubt, de novo genes, Denisovans, Dennis Venema, genetic code, HLA genes, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, mitochondrial Eve, Neanderthals, nylonase, Paul Nelson, proteins, pseudogenes, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs, Stephen Meyer, synteny, whale evolution, Y-chromosome Adam}

Adam and the Genome — Review and Conclusion

_{Science and Culture
March 27, 2018

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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In retrospect, where does the evidence stand? Here’s a summary: Venema’s main claims in light of the relevant science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Addy Pross, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Cambridge University, controversy, debate, ID the Future, intelligent design, Israel, J. Scott Turner, Live Science, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Oxford University Press, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, Quarterly Review of Biology, Stephen Meyer, Steven Newton, termite mounds, What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology}

What Evolution “Controversy”? Scott Turner Gets High Praise from Quarterly Review of Biology

_{David Klinghoffer
March 26, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

If you want to know what scientists themselves think about the current status of evolutionary theory, you have to look behind the curtain. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, basketball, bone, brain, Canada, collagen, design constraint, eyes, Howard Glicksman, Irreducible Complexity, macroscale, molecular machines, Nanoscale, piano, running, Scientific Reports, tendons, tissue, walking}

Tendons Are Irreducibly Complex

_{Science and Culture
March 26, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A simple tissue we take for granted turns out to represent another example of irreducible complexity in the human body. Read More ›