Tag: civilization

Old fashioned television set with green screen displaying static noise in a vintage living room with outdated furniture.

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Arts
Linguistics
Sociology
Tagged
, Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people}

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

_{Peter Biles
August 29, 2025

Arts, Linguistics, Sociology

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Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Tagged
, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, blueprint, Book of Mormon, canon, Christianity, civilization, culture, DNA, extraterrestrials, genetic information, genome, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Holy Bible, human being, Human Genome Project, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Islam, Israelites, Judaism, Martin Luther, medicine, National Institutes of Health, New Testament, Old Testament, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Protestantism, punctuation, Quran, religion, Richard Sternberg, Roman Catholic Church, Scripture, species, vowels}

The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics

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Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, Aristotle, atheists, bifurcation, children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason Magazine, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness}

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 29, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Christian practice, Christianity Today, civilization, cultural Christianity, Douglas Adams, Elon Musk, FaithIt, god of the philosophers, Jordan Peterson, Mona Lisa, Piss Christ, religion of curiosity, Richard Dawkins, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Tom Holland}

To Save Civilization, Will “Cultural Christianity” Suffice?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 29, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Age of Exploration, animals, Arthur Lovejoy, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Edward Young, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theories, F. W. J. Schelling, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, James Burnett, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Robinet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, Night-Thoughts, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, scientific paradigms, sea creaturess, The Discarded Image, The Great Chain of Being, University of Chicago, worldview, Zoonomia}

Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

_{Daniel Witt
May 28, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, authoritarianism, biblical authority, Christians, civilization, colleges, culture, Darwinism, elitism, Evangelical Christians, intelligent design, non-Christians, race, sex, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, United States, universities}

New Book: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 3, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science

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If you want to understand why many Christian colleges are now producing graduates with views indistinguishable from secular materialists, read my book. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, civilization, earth, fluid flow, gold, habitability, jewelry, life, lubricants, mantle, minerals, mining, planets, subduction zones, sulfur}

Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Earth operates an extraordinary natural factory that concentrates gold from barely detectable amounts into rich deposits that humans can mine. How? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, bronze, Bronze Age, civilization, copper, earth, Earth’s crust, elements, humans, intelligent design, Iron Age, metals, Michael Denton, microbial life, Middle East, Native Americans, oxygen, theism, warfare, weapons, Wisconsin, wood}

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

_{Eric Hedin
May 21, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, eagles, film, franchise, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, cells, civilization, dumb luck, earth, Earth’s crust, foresight, fossils, intelligent design, iron, Jupiter, mantle, metals, planets, platinum, Saturn, silver, solar panels, stars, Stone Age, supernova, toxicity, uranium, wealth}

Metals: From Stars to Cells

_{Eric Hedin
May 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Read More ›