Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, blubber, cetaceans, Current Biology, Dennis Venema, evolution, flippers, Indohyus, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, whale, Zombie Science (book)}

Adam and the Genome and Whale Fossils

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We don’t find the “pattern” that evolution predicts “should be found in the fossil record at certain times.” Rather, we find that truly aquatic whales appear abruptly. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 16, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, fisherman, fungus, GMO, goldfish, lobsters, New Zealand, plant rights, suicide clinic, suicide tourism, Switzerland, wheat}

Swiss Follies

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2018

Bioethics, Botany

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Switzerland has followed New Zealand and a few other localities to outlaw boiling live lobsters. But that's just for starters. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 16, 2018

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom day, Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, Censor of the Year, Cosmos (series), Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwin Day, Douglas Ell, education, Jay Richards, materialism, multiverse, National Geographic, Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Federalist}

Fun! Cosmos and 2015 Censor of the Year Neil deGrasse Tyson Get a Second Season

_{David Klinghoffer
January 16, 2018

Physical Sciences

4}

The fabulist Dr. Tyson returns, and we commit ourselves in advance to being there to watch and check his facts. Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, BIO-Complexity, coalescence, common descent, Conservation of Information, effective population size, Endogenous retroviruses, genes, genetic drift, human origins, intelligent design, macroevolution, mutations, natural selection, No Free Lunch, population genetics, synteny}

Population Genetics: What It Is and Why It Matters

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2018

Evolution

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Some have claimed that for humans the coalescence to one (or first coalescent) does not happen for well over a million years back in time, calling into question the idea of a single-couple human origin. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Daphne Major, Darwinian theory, evolution, Galápagos Islands, hybridization, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, microevolution, Peter and Rosemary Grant, podcast, Princeton University, Ray Bohlin, smoking gun, speciation, Zombie Science (book)}

Big Bird — Evolution’s “Smoking Gun”?

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2018

Biology, Evolution

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Against the backdrop of research of Princeton’s Peter and Rosemary Grant, Darwin’s finches are among the most hyped illustrations of evolution in action. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, amino acids, Andrew Jones, apes, Bible, chimpanzees, Denisovans, Dennis Venema, DNA, Douglas Axe, genome, hominid fossils, human origins, humans, Journal of Molecular Biology, Michael Behe, mitochondrial Eve, Neanderthals, proteins, pseudogenes, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, RNA, Scot McKnight, Stephen Meyer, synteny, theistic evolution, Y-chromosome Adam}

Hmm, Much of Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome Isn’t About Adam and the Genome

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2018

Faith & Science

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Venema seems much more interested in pursuing longstanding debates with intelligent design and with certain ID proponents. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, ATP synthase, bacteria, Berra's Blunder, co-option, Corvette, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Imperial College London, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, molecular motors, Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports, Scott Minnich, Tim Berra}

Berra’s Blunder in Molecular Motors

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Statements in news articles suggest that some science writers, while aware of ID, don’t understand what is required for a Darwinian response. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Baylor College of Medicine, BIO-Complexity, Denis Noble, epigenetics, gene regulation, genes, genetic determinism, heritability, identical twins, Jonathan Wells, membrane patterns, Neo-Darwinism, twin studies, Zombie Science (book)}

Why Genetic Determinism Is a Bad Stock

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences

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This particular shambling zombie takes another punch now with news about identical twins. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 13, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, elderly, euthanasia, India, Netherlands, nihilism, organ harvesting, Switzerland}

Euthanasia Pathogen Spreads — Case of the Elderly Indian Couple

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 13, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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A healthy elderly couple in India is asking for joint euthanasia because their lives are of no use. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, acceptance, education, evolution, indoctrination, knowledge, Milner Centre for Evolution, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Neo-Darwinism, Oxford University, Phys.org, science, United Kingdom}

For U.K. Students, Education or Indoctrination?

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 12, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Science Education

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A new study from Nature Ecology & Evolution supposedly shows that acceptance of evolution is linked to lack of scientific knowledge. Read More ›