Tag: authority

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Africa, atheists, authority, clicks, consonants, cultures, Darwinian evolution, declensions, documentary, evolutionary theory, human exceptionalism, Khoisan languages, language, leftists, Michael Knowles, Noam Chomsky, primates, primitive, priors, Return of the God Hypothesis, sophistication, Stephen Meyer, technology, tenses, The Story of Everything, tongue}

Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language

_{David Klinghoffer
April 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Political Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alexis de Tocqueville, anarchists, authority, birds, capitalists, Christianity, Christians, conformism, Congress, Dorothy Sayers, England, ethics, evil, faith and reason, food, good, intellectual authority, J. Budziszewski, Jews, Karl Marx, laboratory animals, libertarians, murmurations, mysteries, nonbelievers, Pandemic of Lunacy, Politics, pro-choice, public opinion, right, sanity, socialists, souls, status, status signaling, virtue signaling, wokeness, wrong}

The Flocking of Crowds: The Secular University and Unstable Mass Conformism

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 24, 2026

Political Science, Scientific Reasoning

10}

A bird sees another bird next to him fluttering, and he wants to flutter that way, too. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, arguments, authority, cosmic fine-tuning, discoveries, evidence, ID the Future, initial conditions, intelligent design, life, materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Kent, natural constants, naturalism, origin of life, podcast, scientific authorities, truth, universe, worldview}

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature for You

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

3}

When it comes to science, many people don’t take the time to learn the evidence and arguments directly. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authority, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge, COVID-19, culture, denial, England, John West, lockdowns, pandemic, scientism, United States, worship}

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, authority, carbon, climate change, fossil fuels, human thriving, ideology, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, traffic, trust}

As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Physical Sciences

4}

The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, authority, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Commentary, Darwinians, Darwinism, David Berlinski, doctors, evolution, eye, finch beaks, Galápagos Islands, heart, intelligence, intelligent design, Jay W. Richards, M.-P. Schützenberger, materialism, medicine, natural selection, peppered moth, random variations, René Thom, Science After Babel, The Deniable Darwin, Tower of Babel}

Jay Richards on Babel, Berlinski, and “Science After Darwin”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Something really came undone in the Covid era. Now, the phrase “science says” or “doctors say” prompts a smirk from about half the population. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, authority, Brian Miller, citation bluffing, Dave Farina, debates, DNA polymerase, Eric Anderson, evolution, Gerald Joyce, ID the Future, James Tour, Long Story Short, Nature Chemistry, polymerization, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, replication, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, RNA, sarcasm, Stephen Meyer, Steve Benner, YouTube videos}

Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

_{Casey Luskin
May 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

21}

It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 2, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, authority, Big Bang, consciousness, David Papineau, Hinduism, King’s College London, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Theology Unleashed, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic dualism, Thomistic philosophy}

Egnor Debates Materialism with Philosopher of Science David Papineau

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Egnor: “Do you want me to explain Thomistic dualism to you?...David, do you not know how St. Thomas explained intentionality?” Papineau: “Uh, no.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animals, authority, Canada, cats, Charles Darwin, Christmas, COVID-19, Denmark, Dogs, experts, humans, intelligent design, Justin Trudeau, mammals, On the Origin of Species, pandemic, public health, quarantine, technocracy, Thanksgiving, The Descent of Man, Wesley Smith, World Economic Forum, worship}

Thanksgiving in the Light of Darwin’s Vision

_{David Klinghoffer
November 23, 2020

Bioethics

4}

I first heard of what’s being called a Great Reset just a couple of weeks ago. It sounded like a conspiracy theory, but it’s far from that. Read More ›