Tag: book reviews

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, book reviews, Center for Science and Culture, culture, Dean Kenyon, Discovery Institute, endorsements, Fritz Schaefer, intelligent design, origin of life, origins science, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Jastrow, Robert Shapiro, scientists, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 21, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Today, we bring you the second half of Robert J. Marks’s 2020 interview with Dr. Bradley. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Atlantic Ocean, book reviews, Coast Guard, Connecticut, drowning, Great Elm, Lexington Avenue, Long Island, Long Island Sound, National Review, New England, new york, prep school, restroom, Sam Tanenhaus, singing, Southern California, submersible, Titanic, William F. Buckley Jr., Zillow}

Three Memories of William F. Buckley

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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For Buckley on evolution, see here. I’m enjoying the new bio of him very so far, but am prepared to start joining the critics as I read further. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
January 2, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, atoms, book reviews, disenchantment, How to Save the West, intelligent design, meaning, purpose, quantum physics, Reductionism, science, Spencer Klavan, spirit, subatomic particles, telos, universe}

Spencer Klavan Asks: What Is the Universe Made Of?

_{Emily Sandico
January 2, 2025

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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In ancient and medieval times, the world “seemed alive with spirit and divine fire.” That humans should be invested with spirit and soul was only natural. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 22, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biography, book reviews, books, C.S. Lewis, fiction, Immanuel Kant, inference to the best explanation, John Adams, Michael Polanyi, non-fiction, novels, Politics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Stephen Meyer, Twitter}

Meyer’s God Hypothesis — Christmas Selection from Aleo Review of Books

_{David Klinghoffer
November 22, 2022

Bioethics, Epistemology, Intelligent Design

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There’s no discernible agenda other than enjoying good books. They promise “Reviews shorter than books.” That’s a concept. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, book reviews, Cambridge University Press, Darwinists, dialogue, evolution, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Panda's Thumb, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski}

Rosenhouse Roundup

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, book reviews, Cambridge University Press, dialogue, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski}

Invitation to Jason Rosenhouse: Respond to Dembski

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Nothing is more clarifying than reasoned argument, as Professor Rosenhouse appears to agree in his book. Now let’s find out what he will say. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Date
February 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, book reviews, books, Center for Science and Culture, culture, Discovery Institute, George W. Bush, Goldilocks, intelligent design, Marvin Olasky, New York City, public policy, science, Steve Buri, The King’s College, Virginia, World Magazine}

Marvin Olasky Joins Discovery Institute as New Senior Fellow

_{Science and Culture
February 28, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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“I’ve long admired Discovery’s courageous work on intelligent design,” said Olasky. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ambiguity, atheism, book reviews, Christopher Hitchens, Claremont Review of Books, creator, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, David Gelernter, evolution, existence, Friedrich Nietzsche, intelligent design, Leonard Sax, materialism, mathematician, meaning, MIT, physicians, psychologists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University}

Leonard Sax on Intelligent Design and the “Ambiguity of the Evidence”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer offers but does not seek to compel the choice to affirm a transcendent origin of the universe. Read More ›