Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 10, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, anxiety, assisted suicide, CNN, dignity, hospice, illness, suffering, suicide}

Defining Dignity Up

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 10, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

When you look at the studies of why people decide to commit assisted suicide or be euthanized, a consistent pattern emerges. Read More ›

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Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, Darwinism, evolution, Finland, Heretic, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, Zombie Science (book)}

Heretic Is Amazon’s #1 New Book on Evolution; Distinguished Scientists Endorse

_{Science & Culture
February 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector, builds a highly successful scientific career, and then writes a book about it? Read More ›

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post

Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, animals, chimpanzees, counting, frogs, goats, intelligence, Kyoto University, New York Times, numbers, Royal Society, spiders}

Sure, Animals Count; But Can They Count?

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 9, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

5}

What is the nature, and extent, of animal intelligence? Read More ›

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post

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, BIO-Complexity, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, Dennis Venema, evolution, Francisco Ayala, genetic diversity, HLA-DRB1, Ola Hössjer, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm}

Adam and the Genome and “Predetermined Conclusions”

_{Science & Culture
February 9, 2018

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

13}

Buggs isn’t the only qualified biologist who has looked at arguments from MHC genes against Adam and Eve and found them lacking. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, evolution, evolutionary ethics, immorality, law, mind, morality, PZ Myers}

From the Annals of Evolutionary Ethics

_{Michael Egnor
February 8, 2018

Bioethics, Physics

4}

Immoral behavior is obviously, in some sense, behavior that transgresses a law. What kind of law? Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, democracy, environmentalism, fossil fuels, freedom, natural resources, nature, poverty, socialism, technocracy, tyranny, Utopia, wealth}

If the “Experts” Ruled: Science Journal Pushes International Technocratic Tyranny

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2018

Bioethics

6}

This paper — from the family of journals that includes Nature, the world’s most prestigious science journal! — illustrates why we can never allow these people to be in charge. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, methodological materialism, Stanley Miller, Stonehenge}

Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps

_{Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt
February 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 7, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, BioLogos, Christianity Today, citation bluffing, Dennis Venema, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, John Templeton Foundation, Keith Fox, Sapientia, Undeniable (book)}

Symposium? Or Firing Squad?

_{David Klinghoffer
February 7, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

A symposium implies a diversity of perspectives with at least the reasonable hope of open minds, everyone arguing freely, and no one held back or held down while others pummel him. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, baby, Down syndrome, fetus, France, Iceland, infanticide, Peter Singer, Princeton University}

New “Gerber Baby” Has Down Syndrome

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2018

Bioethics

2}

This is an excellent move, a very visible and enthusiastic support for human exceptionalism and equal moral worth. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 7, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, bottleneck, citation bluffing, Dennis Venema, Douglas Axe, haplotypes, Human Genome Project, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Adam and the Genome and Citation Bluffing

_{Science & Culture
February 7, 2018

Faith & Science

23}

Yesterday, Douglas Axe responded to Dennis Venema’s review of Axe’s book Undeniable, pointing to what you might call citation bluffing. Read More ›