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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 31, 2020

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Biology
Evolution
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, __cedited, cancer, conspiracy theory, coronavirus, Darwinists, disease, evolution, functional complexity, genetic engineering, intelligent design, natural selection, Nature Medicine, PZ Myers, SARS-CoV-2}

Did COVID-19 Virus Evolve by Natural Selection?

_{Michael Egnor
March 31, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Natural selection, if understood as undirected variation and differential reproductive success, is a destructive process. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
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, __cedited, “consensus science”, Alabama, americans, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chernobyl, China, churches, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, doctors, Donald Trump, Earth Day, Easter, Evangelical Christians, Federal Government, global warming, New York City, New York Times, nurses, pandemic, pastors, Thomas Huxley, United States, Wuhan}

Are Evangelicals “Crippling” Our Coronavirus Response?

_{Michael Egnor
March 30, 2020

Faith & Science, Medicine

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Evangelicals didn’t cause this plague, and we desperately need the courage and wisdom that they have always brought to bear against pandemics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, Andrew McDiarmid, chloroquine, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, evolution, Food and Drug Administration, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, Plasmodium falciparum, SARS-CoV-2, South America, Spain, The Edge of Evolution, viruses}

Approved by FDA Against COVID-19, Chloroquine Is Also Prominent in the Case for Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Something I had not heard before is a really clear explanation of how chloroquine works, on the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum and, perhaps, on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, body plans, Charles Darwin, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, evolution, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, living cell, macroevolution, medicine, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, On the Origin of Species, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses, World Health Organization, Wuhan}

Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

_{Jonathan Wells
March 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, atheism, coronavirus, creator, David Bentley Hart, evil, families, good, humanity, Moral Law, natural selection, neighbors, pandemic, Richard Dawkins, suffering, theodicy}

To Ask “Where Is God in This Pandemic?” Is to Acknowledge that God Exists

_{Michael Egnor
March 23, 2020

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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The problem of theodicy is real, of course. We don’t always know or understand God’s ways. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __cedited, Charles Camosy, coronavirus, disabled, discrimination, Down syndrome, elderly people, epidemic, Europe, healthcare, hospitals, New York Post, New York State, patients, physicians, quality of life, smoking, utilitarianism}

No to “Quality of Life” Coronavirus Healthcare Rationing

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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In a world of bioethicists who primarily eschew the sanctity/equality of life ethic, Fordham University’s Charles Camosy is a refreshing ethicist worthy of the title. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, Adolf Hitler, anxiety, C.S. Lewis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, churches, coronavirus, Europe, fear, isolation, Nazis, Northern Ireland, pandemic, restaurants, Seattle, tuberculosis, University of Washington, war, Wheaton College, World War I, World War II}

Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis

_{John G. West
March 20, 2020

Bioethics

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Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, China, coronavirus, DDT, eugenics, evolution, feces, Holocaust, homelessness, Los Angeles, malaria, Michael Egnor, pandemic, plague, quarantine, San Francisco, Seattle, Steven Novella, supermarket, tuberculosis, Yale University}

Science Expert Slaps the “Anti-Intellectuals,” Again

_{Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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I stopped by Joe the truck driver’s house to talk. Joe read Yale neurologist Steven Novella’s essay, and he didn’t think much of it. Read More ›

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Author
Steven J. Buri

Date
March 19, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, __cedited, 9/11 attack, C.S. Lewis, contagion, coronavirus, creativity, crisis, death, Discovery Institute, faith, history, hope, human beings, human life, innovation, purpose, Seattle, social distancing}

Purpose and Hope in a Time of Turmoil

_{Steven J. Buri
March 19, 2020

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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During a recent staff meeting, two Discovery Institute staff members referenced essays by C.S. Lewis, including “On Living in the Atomic Age.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, 9/11 attack, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, Harvard University, Ignaz Semmelweis, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, natural selection, neurosurgery, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Rodney Stark, unintelligent processes}

Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
March 18, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›