Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Brian Josephson, Closer to Truth, complexity, contingency, Deity, God, god's, intelligent design, Labor Day, Nobel Prize, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, specification, William A. Dembski}

For Your Labor Day Enjoyment – Dembski on Design Detection in Just Three Minutes

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2017

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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We last checked in with Robert Lawrence Kuhn as he interviewed Nobel laureate Brian Josephson who said he was “80 percent” sure of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, Compassion and Choices, Death with Dignity, dementia, elderly people, Hemlock Society, hypothermia, suffering, USA Today, voluntary stop eating and drinking}

Another Egregious Form of “Death with Dignity”

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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My mother died of Alzheimer’s in my home last year. My uncle died of it several years ago. Believe me, I know what Alzheimer’s is like. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 2, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Discovery Institute, Edwards v. Aguillard, evolution, Gerd Müller, intelligent design, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Royal Society, Slate, Turkey, U.C. Irvine}

In Science, a Factually and Logically Challenged Letter Decries ID and Discovery Institute

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 2, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

3}

The writer, among other errors, tries to associate the theory of intelligent design with Turkey’s recent action in banishing evolution from its public schools. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, David Berlinski, Douglas Axe, eugenics, evolution, Galápagos finches, history, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, On the Origin of Species, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Nagel, Tom Bethell, Tom Wolfe}

A.N. Wilson in The Times – Against Darwinist Absolutism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2017

Evolution, Science Reporting

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Wilson's forthcoming biography appears to be part of a larger rethink of evolution that is bubbling away in a variety of areas. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, American Renaissance, Charles Darwin, dehumanization, John Derbyshire, Margaret Sanger, Northwestern University, Racism, Richard Spencer, Robert E. Lee, Robert Weissberg}

Evolution and the Alt-Right, Continued

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

While the Confederate cause in the Civil War has been the subject of much chatter, the modern racial right owes far more to Charles Darwin than to Robert E. Lee. Read More ›

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Date
September 1, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, Cnidaria, Darwinism, Ediacaran animals, evolution, evolutionary tree, Parvancorina, rangeomorphs, University College London, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University}

News from the Ediacaran and Cambrian

_{Science and Culture
September 1, 2017

Intelligent Design

8}

The Cambrian explosion remains one of the severest evidential challenges to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Date
August 31, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, MIT, natural selection, Not by Chance, species, The Evolution Revolution}

Listen: Lee Spetner on What Natural Selection Can Do — And What It Can’t

_{Science and Culture
August 31, 2017

Evolution

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Dr. Spetner also explores aspects of population genetics and the constraints the Earth’s history imposes on evolving new species. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 31, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, adult stem cells, dopamine, embryos, Kyoto University, monkeys, neurons, regenerative medicine, Research, skin cells, stem cells}

Ethical Stem Cells Relieve Parkinson’s in Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The advance of ethical stem cell research continues exponentially. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Claude Shannon, intelligent design, Jeremy England, John von Neumann, materialism, Moral Law, political correctness, Richard Lewontin, self-organization, thermodynamics}

On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Physics

7}

Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 30, 2017

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Adam Frank, Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, history, Jews, Nazi Germany}

Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 30, 2017

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it. Read More ›