Tag: competition

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, Dame Cecily Saunders, death, Department of Health and Human Services, Dying Well, families, government, health system, hospice, Humanize, living, palliative care, Palliative Medicine Reports, patients, quality, total pain}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, David G. King, Discovery Institute, embedding, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, lineage selection, Luis Zaman, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, natural selection, Neil Thomas, New Coke, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, Southern Illinois University, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", ADHD, competition, depression, education, evolution, heart disease, human agency, human evolution, lizards, moths, natural selection, poverty, undirected process, United Kingdom, University of East Anglia}

“Human Evolution” Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 11, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

2}

A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Alfred Russel Wallace, Americas, Australia, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, genocide, imperialism, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, New Zealand, racial extermination, Racism, Social Darwinism}

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart
February 9, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

8}

Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›

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post

Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, anthropology, Charles Darwin, climate change, collaboration, competition, culture, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, dissenters, environmentalism, evolution, Evolution News, glacier, iceberg, intelligent design, James A. Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Lynn Margulis, Richard Prum, science, Slate, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Virginia}

Slate on Evolution’s “Third Way”: The Sound of a Glacier Melting

_{David Klinghoffer
January 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

4}

I’m interested in “science as a cultural domain,” too. And here’s a great illustration of how the culture changes. Read More ›

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post

Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 12, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, competition, curriculum, debate, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, fire, Forensics, homework, memorization, pedagogy, persuasion, science, Science Education Policy, Supreme Court}

Evolution Education — A Debater’s Perspective

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 12, 2018

Science Education

3}

William Butler Yeats noted, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Read More ›

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post

Date
April 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, active information, co-evolution, competition, complex specified information, CSI, ecological niches, fitness, gene sequences, Immune System, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, Law of Conservation of Information, magic, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, randomness, Shannon information, specification, specified information, University of Bristol, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

The Law of Zero Magic

_{Science and Culture
April 10, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The mystique of evolutionism is the idea that natural selection explains everything. In fact, natural selection itself explains nothing. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, chicken-and-egg problem, Communism, competition, Darwinism, death, Discovery Institute, Disinherit the Wind, DNA repair, Hollywood, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Thomas Malthus}

“Communism Was Welded to Darwinism”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Origin of Life

2}

You never know who’s going to turn up at Q&A with Jonathan Wells and John West. Read More ›

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post

Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 30, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, competition, education, evolution, freedom, schools, science, textbooks, Turkey}

In Turkey, Evolution Erased

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 30, 2017

Evolution, Science Education

1}

That is really too bad. This development will not serve Turkish students well. Read More ›