Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropology, Arthur Schopenhauer, assumptions, biases, Charles Darwin, Christa Schroeder, cranial capacity, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, human origins, ideology, Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize, prejudices, pseudoscience, racial inequality, Racism, religion, scientific racism, scientists, Steven Pinker, The Descent of Man}

On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective?

_{Richard Weikart
February 26, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Psychology

5}

Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, administrators, assisted suicide, British Columbia, Canada, death, dignity, euthanasia, hemlock, hospice, killing, London, MAiD, medicine, palliative care, patients}

Canadian Hospice Says No to Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Cecily Saunders, who created the modern hospice movement, stood steadfastly against assisted-suicide legalization. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bacteria, bio-engineering, bioengineering, David Klinghoffer, devolution, enzymes, evolution, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, microbes, polar bears, Richard Lenski, Science Daily, The Edge of Evolution, tryptophan}

Evolution a Creative Trickster? Heretic Bioengineer Says No

_{Jonathan Witt
February 23, 2018

Evolution, Life Sciences

5}

Many of the oft-cited examples of evolution in action involve devolution. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Francis Galton, Great Minds with Michael Medved, Racism, Richard Lynn, Richard Weikart, United Kingdom, University College London}

Eugenics Isn’t Ancient History

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 23, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

The London Student reports on a disturbing event hosted, since 2014, on the University College London campus. Read More ›

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Date
February 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, butterfly, Carboniferous Period, cockroach, Current Biology, flagellum, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, odor, Olfactory Sensory Neurons, Pacific Salmon, sensors, smell, U.C. Riverside}

A Smell Test for Design v. Evolutionary Explanations

_{Science and Culture
February 23, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the reasons cockroaches are so successful is their keen sense of smell. Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Africa, Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, cave art, Colin Reeves, Denisovans, Dennis Venema, DNA, Europe, Homo, Homo sapiens, human origins, Leslie Aiello, modern humans, Neanderthals, Ola Hössjer, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Siegrid Hartwig-Scherer, Spain, theistic evolution, Wall Street Journal}

Adam and the Genome and Neanderthal Cave Art

_{Science and Culture
February 22, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

4}

As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery from Spain. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 22, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, authoritarianism, BBC, Charlie Gard, coercion, diagnosis, food, futile care, hospital, Italy, medicine, Rome, United Kingdom, water}

In the U.K., Another Shut-Off-the-Baby’s-Life-Support Case

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 22, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Forcing this baby to die when there is no diagnosis would be an act of naked medical authoritarianism. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 22, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotelianism, cells, convergence, evolutionary theory, ions, logic, mutations, nerve cells, potassium, Royal Society, sodium, sodium channels, sodium-potassium pump, teleology, voltage}

This Didn’t Evolve a Few Mutations at a Time

_{Cornelius Hunter
February 22, 2018

Biology, Evolution

11}

Let’s have a look at an example: nerve cells and their action potential signals. Read More ›

Ardipithecus ramidus is a species of australopithecine from the Afar region of Early Pliocene Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago

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Date
February 21, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ardi, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Casey Luskin, Darwinian evolution, Dennis Venema, Ernst Mayr, fossils, hominid, hominins, Homo, Homo erectus, Homo rudolfensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, saltation, Science and Human Origins, theistic evolution}

Adam and the Genome and Hominid Fossils

_{Science and Culture
February 21, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Despite Dennis Venema’s statements to the contrary, there is no clear-cut lineage of fossils leading from ape-like hominids to modern humans. Read More ›