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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Journal of the American Medical Association, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science & Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

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Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abortion, Animal Algorithms, bacterial flagella, Biomimetics, cable bacteria, centrioles, Current Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, fetuses, Harvard University, intelligent design, Living Waters, mantis shrimp, materials science, Michael Behe, molecular machines, navigation, New Scientist, nose, PNAS, sea turtles, sophistication, springtails, super-resolution microscopy, University of North Carolina, University of Oldenburg}

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

_{David Coppedge
March 3, 2025

Applied Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 17, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, culture, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, prisoners, prostitutes, secularists, sex, sexual abuse, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists}

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 17, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Dogs, Faye Flam, Georgia Tech, Harvard University, hypothermia, mammals, mice, neuroscience, Phys.org, proteins, rats, The Scientist, water}

Non-Evolution of the Wet Dog Shake

_{David Coppedge
December 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Common things can become extraordinary when examined by science. In this research, evolutionists need not apply. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, brain, Darwinism, evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, intelligent design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

_{David Klinghoffer
November 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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One reason, Dr. Denton says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, ATP synthase, cellular respiration, electron transport chain, Energy, glycolysis, Harvard University, intelligent design, Krebs cycle, protons}

Appreciating the Molecular Detail of ATP Synthase

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here, I wish to highlight this animation, again narrated by Harvard’s Professor Robert Lue. Read More ›