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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 3, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Albert Einstein, Australia, Charles Darwin, climate change, COVID-19, evolution, global warming, Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University, Peter Ridd, United States, universities}

In Australia, Academic Freedom Case Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 3, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Professor Peter Ridd doubted that the Great Barrier Reef was almost dead due to global warming, and argued as much. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, arachnids, Australia, cancer, horseshoe crabs, mites, Nature Communications, scorpions, spiders, toxins, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland}

Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs

_{Science & Culture
June 8, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 15, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Australia, cancer, elderly people, euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian, National Review, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, The Economist}

Media in a Swoon over Death Doctor and His Suicide Machine

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2019

Medicine

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The man is thoroughly reprehensible. No wonder the mainstream media is attracted to him like a magnet to metal. Read More ›

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Date
November 13, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, arctic tern, Australia, birds, Cornell University, evolution, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Lund University, migration, Nature (journal), New Scientist, PNAS, Sweden, University of New South Wales}

New Bird Migration Secrets Revealed

_{Science & Culture
November 13, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Advances in live data logging show how birds do it: get from here to there. Some surprises were uncovered in recent experiments. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
November 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Ardi, Australia, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian evolution, DNA, E. coli, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Ida, materialism, Michael Denton, Michigan State University, microbes, New York University, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, RNA, Robert Shapiro, Scientific American, tetrapods, The Blind Watchmaker, tiktaalik, U.C. Berkeley}

Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever

_{Michael Behe
November 7, 2019

Evolution

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Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 26, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, atheism, Australia, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Darwinists, David Attenborough, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough, Thomas Aquinas, will}

Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”

_{Michael Egnor
September 26, 2019

Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2019

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, astrobiology, Atacama Desert, Australia, BBC News, cable bacteria, carbon, Chile, DNA, Great Barrier Reef, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, microbes, molecular machines, Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports, New Scientist, oxygen, Paul Nelson, perchlorates, PNAS}

With an Assist from Nature, DNA Travels the Globe

_{Science & Culture
September 18, 2019

Life Sciences

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Life makes its way around the world using nonliving transportation systems, seeding the world with complex specified information. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
July 1, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Australia, culture, Darwinian evolution, evolutionary theory, faculty, free speech, Peter Ridd, students, The Conversation, United States, universities, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney}

More Victories for Academic Freedom…Down Under

_{Sarah Chaffee
July 1, 2019

Scientific Freedom

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It seems that a movement of support for academic freedom is rising in Australia. I hope it makes its way to the United States. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 30, 2019

Categories
Geology
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, archaea, astrobiology, Australia, bacteria, creation myth, DNA, enzymes, genetic code, Hollywood, information, intelligence, iron, materialism, meteorites}

Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
June 30, 2019

Geology, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Astrobiologists think they may have found where life came from — cyanide in meteorites! Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
June 28, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Albert Einstein, Australia, Charles Darwin, climate change, evolutionary theory, Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University, Peter Ridd, Science Uprising, scientists, United States}

Judge Calls for Academic Freedom…in Australia

_{Sarah Chaffee
June 28, 2019

Scientific Freedom

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Wow! That is some stirring prose. The reference to Darwin is ironic, though. Read More ›