Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, "Out of Africa", Africa, annus horribilis, China, fossil record, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human origins, Middle Pleistocene, New Scientist, paleontology, skull}

What, Another “Rewrite” of the Human Origins Story? How About a Rethink, Instead?

_{Günter Bechly
November 20, 2017

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Sometimes predictions are not only fulfilled but over-fulfilled. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 19, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, correlation, death certificate, false dichotomy, homicide, physician, statistics, suicide, Switzerland, Washington State}

Assisted Suicide Should Be Included in Suicide Statistics

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 19, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Here are illustrations from Washington State, and from Switzerland. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, life, materialism, matter, physical existence, podcast, reality, Research, Sarah Chaffee, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

_{Science and Culture
November 18, 2017

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

1}

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evolution, Julie Payette, Justin Trudeau, Kirk Durston, multiverse, naturalism, PNAS, post-modernism, Sarah Chaffee, science, Scientific American, scientism, Slate, The Atlantic, UFOs}

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

9}

No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, alphabet soup, dandelions, design intuition, dragonflies, Elliott Sober, eyes, functional coherence, glaciers, Hans Vodder, intelligent design, Mars, Mount Rushmore, mountains, Oklo reaction, probability, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?

_{Douglas Axe
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

5}

Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist's claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately. Read More ›

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Date
November 16, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Brave New World, CRISPR, gene editing, human beings, ID the Future, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Wesley Smith}

What Does Gene-Editing with CRISPR Portend for Bioethics?

_{Science and Culture
November 16, 2017

Bioethics, Life Sciences

1}

Wesley Smith describes a range of consequences of viewing human beings as resources to be manipulated and exploited. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 16, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, anti-humanism, Bill Nye, children, China, demographics, earth, electricity, environmentalism, family planning, global warming, Japan, murder, NBC News, one-child policy, population, prison, responsibility, The War on Humans, Travis Rieder, tyranny, Western Europe}

Environmentalism’s Worsening Anti-Human Infection

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 16, 2017

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

Bioethicist Travis Rieder compares having a child to releasing a murderer from prison to kill again. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 16, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, Brownian motion, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinists, defining terms, Dickinsonia, fossil record, magical thinking, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, Paul Chien, PNAS, progressive evolution, punctuated equilibria, punctuated equilibrium, Stephen Jay Gould, Temple University, University of Vienna, Yale University}

Punctuated Equilibria Is Back, but Still Magical

_{Science and Culture
November 16, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Calling it by a new name doesn’t change the essence of a theory relying on chance. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __nedited, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Douglas Axe, Günter Bechly, integration, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, John West, Jonathan Wells, Judaism, Lee Spetner, Maimonides, Paul Nelson, science, Sean McDowell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

Philosopher J.P. Moreland on Theistic Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
November 15, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

What does the new book have to offer the perplexed today that previous works don't? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, animal rights, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Connecticut, currency, dolphins, elephants, frivolous lawsuit, humans, inflation, law, personhood, PETA, property, zoo}

Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2017

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›