Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 6, 2016 CategoriesChemistryLife SciencesOrigin of Life Tagged , __tedited, abiogenesis, functional complexity, ignorance, mystery, nanomachines, natural causes, origin of life, prebiotic chemistry, prebiotic synthesis experiments, synthetic chemistry On Prebiotic Chemistry, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Urges an Admission of Ignorance David Klinghoffer June 6, 2016 Chemistry, Life Sciences, Origin of Life 6 Taking aim at biologists who assume the matter of life from nonlife is well in hand, Tour sets out this way. Read More ›
Type post Author Steve Laufmann Date June 6, 2016 CategoriesBiologyEngineering Tagged , __tedited, analogy, bioengineering, biological machines, biomimicry, coordination, design constraint, interdisciplinary, optimization, reverse-engineering, Systems Biology, systems engineering, worldview Foundational Question: Is Biology Engineering? Steve Laufmann June 6, 2016 Biology, Engineering 9 Look at the photo at the top of this post, and ask yourself: What's the best-engineered object in view? Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 3, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsSocial Sciences Tagged , __tedited, biological origins, culture, disabled, Ernst Haeckel, ethics, eugenics, euthanasia, forced sterilization, human life, human rights, infanticide, mercy killing, Richard Weikart, sanctity of life, scientism, Social Darwinism, society The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy David Klinghoffer June 3, 2016 Bioethics, Social Sciences 5 Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins. Read More ›
Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date June 3, 2016 CategoriesBiologyEvolution Tagged , __tedited, adaptation, Darwinism, evolutionary icons, fakery, Icons of Evolution, jumping genes, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, Origin of Species, peppered moths, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transposable elements Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back Jonathan Wells June 3, 2016 Biology, Evolution 5 Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths. Read More ›
Type post Author Steve Laufmann Date May 31, 2016 CategoriesIntelligent DesignPhilosophy of ScienceScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, causality, causation, defining terms, demarcation criteria, falsifiability, historical sciences, inference to the best explanation, methodological materialism, methodology, motivated reasoning, objectivity, predictive-success, presuppositions, pseudoscience, scientific method, scientific reasoning, testability, worldview Foundational Question: Is Intelligent Design Science? Steve Laufmann May 31, 2016 Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning 7 It's long been said that the path to the right answers lies in asking the right questions. Read More ›
Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date May 31, 2016 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __tedited, design intuition, intelligent agency, intuitions, Stephen Talbott, teleology, Third Way of Evolution Can Evolutionary Theory Be Taken Seriously? Jonathan Wells May 31, 2016 Evolution 3 Stephen L. Talbott asks why the public is still so skeptical of evolution. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 31, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, animal life, human exceptionalism, killing, murder Harambe the Gorilla, RIP Wesley J. Smith May 31, 2016 Bioethics 2 I had hoped to avoid comment on the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. But I keep getting asked. Read More ›
Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date May 31, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceScience Education Tagged , __tedited, bias, BioLogos Foundation, common ancestry, comparative biology, Dennis Venema, faith and science, genetics, human genome, pedagogy, population genetics, scientific debate, Warfare Thesis Human Chromosome Two: An Open Letter to BioLogos on the Genetic Evidence, Cont. Cornelius Hunter May 31, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education 6 The claim that the empirical evidence powerfully confirms evolution is an objective claim that can be evaluated in the common language of science. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 29, 2016 CategoriesFaith & ScienceScience Education Tagged , __tedited, atheism, disguised religion, faith and science, higher education, science and religion, scientific atheism, viewpoint discrimination, Warfare Thesis Atheist Endows Chair for Study of Atheism; Look What He’s Got Cradled in His Hands David Klinghoffer May 29, 2016 Faith & Science, Science Education 4 Theistic evolutionists are at pains to assure everyone that evolutionary thinking poses no challenge to theism. Read More ›
Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date May 28, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , __tedited, alternative splicing, chimpanzee genome, chimpanzees, common ancestry, convergent evolution, Dennis Venema, genomic analysis, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human language, human lineages, ideology, patterns, probabilities, retroviruses, viruses The Naked Ape: An Open Letter to BioLogos on the Genetic Evidence, Cont. Cornelius Hunter May 28, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology 14 It does not seem that the evidence supports evolutionary theory as Dennis Venema concludes. Read More ›
