Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 11, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Glenn Branch, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Panda's Thumb, Wikipedia}

How “Notable” Do You Really Have to Be to Merit a Wikipedia Entry?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 11, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Yesterday we reported that Wikipedia editors erased the entry for distinguished paleontolgist Günter Bechly, a proponent of the theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 10, 2017

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, atheism, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Dan Brown, Discovery Institute, Edmond Kirsch, fiction, intelligent design, Jeremy England, MIT, New York Times, Origin, Sarah Chaffee, Spain}

Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

_{David Klinghoffer
October 10, 2017

Human Origins and Anthropology, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 10, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, amber, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, dragonflies, Germany, Günter Bechly, paleontology, ResearchGate, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film), State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, UC Irvine, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia Erases Paleontologist Günter Bechly

_{David Klinghoffer
October 10, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This is a big deal, and a reminder of a key dynamic in the debate about intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Bridalveil Fall, capillaries, cell membranes, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, earth, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, fitness, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, intelligent design, life, Michael Denton, oxygen, Privileged Species, proteins, The Privileged Planet, The Wonder of Water, water}

Wonderful! Michael Denton’s New Book, The Wonder of Water, Is Out

_{Science & Culture
October 10, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

He shows how water’s properties are interrelated for the apparent purpose of allowing complex life to exist on our planet. Read More ›

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Date
October 9, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, intelligent design, natural selection, phylogeny, PLOS ONE, Princeton University, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, protocells, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, University of Zurich, vera causa, worms}

Bottom-Up Bottoms Out

_{Science & Culture
October 9, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Materialist attempts to model the construction of hierarchical organization from the bottom up collapse into a heap of unanswered questions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, despair, mental illness, natural resources, Netherlands, organ donation, physician, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness}

Opening a Door to Assisted Suicide Organ Donors

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

We should not look at the suicidal as natural resources. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, bacterial flagellum, Darwin's Black Box, documentary, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film), The Universe Next Door, Tom Woodward}

Milestones of the Revolution

_{David Klinghoffer
October 7, 2017

Intelligent Design

2}

As John West points out, the new documentary Revolutionary serves as an entry point for considering the case for intelligent design in nature. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 6, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Cambrian Explosion, consciousness, Disinherit the Wind, Hollywood, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Matt Chait, origins, teleology, Zombie Science (book)}

When Science Turns Mushy

_{David Klinghoffer
October 6, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Certain subjects, all posing ultimate questions, reduce much of scientific talk to pablum. Why do you think that is? Read More ›

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post

Date
October 5, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", boron, DNA, Douglas Axe, Geophysical Research Letters, Georgia Tech, Mars, National Science Foundation, polypeptides, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, RNA, sugars, Undeniable (book), William A. Dembski}

Cheaters Never Prosper? Sure They Do in Origin-of-Life Papers

_{Science & Culture
October 5, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

11}

How can scientists get away with publishing patent nonsense when it comes to the origin of life? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 4, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, artificial intelligence, computers, determinism, life, machines, moral agency, moral value, robots, Smithsonian Magazine, toaster}

Blade Runner 2049 Poses Questions about AI Machines and Moral Value

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 4, 2017

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

4}

Rather than get all caught up in esoteric musing, I suggest an entry level test for determining whether an entity has any moral value. Read More ›