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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bill Clinton, Center for Science and Culture, China, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, David French, ENCODE, evolution, Francis Collins, John West, junk DNA, National Institutes of Health, On the Origin of Species, proteins, The Language of God, theology, Wuhan}

Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

_{Jonathan Wells
October 8, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
October 5, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, coordination, CRISPR, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, Ferrari, Francis Collins, gene editing, George Church, germ line, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, natural history, natural selection, predictions, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Language of God}

An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

_{William A. Dembski
July 28, 2021

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 29, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, BioLogos, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, dialogue, faith, Francis Collins, Michael Ruse, religion, scientists, theistic evolution, theology, Tom Gilson}

How Science and Faith Relate — Three Options

_{Jonathan Witt
June 29, 2021

Faith & Science

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"Dialogue," in practice, can quickly devolve into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 25, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, atheism, Charles Darwin, Evolution News, Francis Collins, intelligent design, Jane Goodall, materialism, Peter Singer, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Tanzania, Templeton Foundation, The Descent of Man, theism}

Jane Goodall Meets the God Hypothesis

_{Bethel McGrew
May 25, 2021

Bioethics

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Goodall proves that rejecting materialism is not the end of the story. Even opening up the floor for intelligent design is not the end of the story. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 3, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, consciousness, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, evolution, Francis Collins, geneticists, methodological naturalism, natural selection, particle physics, Paul Davies, population genetics, Richard Lewontin, The Language of God, universe}

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

_{Robert Shedinger
February 3, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 25, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, Albert Einstein, cosmic fine-tuning, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Fred Hoyle, Galileo Galilei, hope, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, media}

Intelligent Design as an Invitation

_{David Klinghoffer
January 25, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Without the possibility of a design behind the universe, to ask “why” would truly be absurd. Read More ›

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Date
May 11, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, catapult, dandelions, Darwinism, dolphins, evolution, Francis Collins, Illustra Media, infrared radiation, intelligent design, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, origami, PNAS}

In Biology, Intelligent Designs that Amaze, Amuse, and Entertain

_{Science & Culture
May 11, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Animals and plants keep giving scientists and engineers ideas for biomimetic designs. Sometimes observing the organisms is just plain fun. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, appendix, Charles Darwin, coccyx, Darwin-skeptics, diarrhea, disabilities, evolution, Foresight (book), Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, Immune System, infection, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Jonathan Wells, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Egnor, Nature Reviews Genetics, pseudogenes, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Myth of Junk DNA, vestigial structures, Wikipedia, Zombie Science (book)}

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

_{Science & Culture
April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

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As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›