Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date September 29, 2016 CategoriesScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __tedited, academic freedom, falsifiability, intellectual freedom, objectivity, political correctness A Trigger Warning for Criticisms of Darwinism? Sarah Chaffee September 29, 2016 Science Education, Scientific Freedom 4 David Moshman helps explain the threat to academic freedom that we see in the study of evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›
Type post Author Jonathan Witt Date September 29, 2016 CategoriesZoology Tagged , __tedited, celebrities, just-so stories, natural selection, sexual selection Brangelina Fever Gets Its Own Darwinian Just-So Story Jonathan Witt September 29, 2016 Zoology 5 Darwinism is so flexible that it's able to explain almost any zoological phenomenon and its opposite. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 26, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, assisted suicide, Compassion and Choices, euthanasia, Hemlock Society No Abuses in Assisted Suicide? What a Crock Wesley J. Smith September 26, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 2 The suicide pushers can say accurately, as in the old Outer Limits TV show, "We are controlling transmission." Read More ›
Type post Author Lee M. Spetner Date September 26, 2016 CategoriesScientific ReasoningScientific Trustworthiness Tagged , __tedited, Lamarckian theory, Lee Spetner, macroevolution, microevolution, misrepresentation, Modern Synthesis, mutations, observations, probabilities, Response to Criticism, scientific method Gloves Off — Responding to David Levin on the Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis Lee M. Spetner September 26, 2016 Scientific Reasoning, Scientific Trustworthiness 15 A scientific theory cannot be established as valid unless the consequences that follow from it correspond to reality. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 25, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsLegal Science (jurisprudence)Medicine Tagged , __tedited, abortion, bioethics, coercion, conscience rights, euthanasia, freedom of religion, Hippocratic Oath, Julian Savulescu The Ethical Menace of “Bioethics” Grows Wesley J. Smith September 25, 2016 Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Medicine 4 Two internationally influential bioethicists join forces to advocate that society legally coerce doctors to kill. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date September 24, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, evolutionary assumptions, falsifiability, scientific method, settled science The Devil May Not Be in the Details — But the Truth Is Sarah Chaffee September 24, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 3 It's common to hear evolution presented as a nearly impregnable theory. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 23, 2016 CategoriesRare Earth Tagged , __tedited, alien life, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Extra-Terrestrial Life, Stephen Hawking Dr. Hawking’s First World Problem: What If Aliens Call!? David Klinghoffer September 23, 2016 Rare Earth 4 Someone should would warn Stephen Hawking that his brand is being perilously overextended. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 16, 2016 CategoriesFoundations Tagged , __tedited, science journalism, scientism, sophistry, trust in scientists Science, Scientism, and the “Intellectual Yet Idiot” David Klinghoffer September 16, 2016 Foundations 4 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Black Swan fame, offers a wonderful and insightful tirade. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date September 13, 2016 CategoriesBiochemistryMedicine Tagged , __tedited, adaptation, antibiotic resistance, Artificial Selection, loss of function, propaganda The Low Bar of Evolutionary Biology — More on That Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Experiment Michael Egnor September 13, 2016 Biochemistry, Medicine 3 It's a marketing strategy for Darwinism, which is sorely in need of marketing. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date September 12, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, argument from authority, Irreducible Complexity, limits of science, modernity, politicization, scientism, settled science Has Science’s Freedom Become Its Downfall? Sarah Chaffee September 12, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 5 It is by defining the limitations of science that we spur its advancement. Read More ›
