Tag: heresy

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, aliens, Bethel McGrew, Bible, blockbuster, C. S. Lewis, Casey Luskin, charm, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, demons, director, Disclosure Day, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, empathy, entertainment, extraterrestrials, faith, faith and science, government, heresy, humanoids, humans, humor, intelligent design, Jews, life forms, marketing, movies, Rod Dreher, Science and Culture Today, social media, Space Trilogy, spirituality, Steven Spielberg, storytelling, sweaters, theaters, theology, ticket sales, Variety}

Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun. Read More ›

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Date
January 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Balliol College, biologists, evolution, evolutionary biology, heresy, intelligence, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Levin, Michael Lynch, Research, Richard Dawkins, Rumpelstiltskin, Science and Culture, William Dembski}

Oxford Conference on Evolution: Heresies and New Ideas Every Day

_{Science & Culture
January 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Michael Lynch, Jerry Coyne, and Richard Dawkins would have split themselves in two, like Rumpelstiltskin in a wild rage, if they had attended. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bullying, bureaucracy, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, Emily Sandico, Federal Government, Greece, Greek Orthodox Church, heresy, immaterial genome, John West, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, National Museum of Natural History, Plato's Revenge, priests, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity}

“Recant!” A Sternberg Story that (Almost) Got Away

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

3}

The priest cited to Sternberg the experience of Greeks when they lived under harsh Turkish rule. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, anatomy, Ball State University, bigotry, blasphemy, cancel culture, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Colin Wright, evolution, freedom from religion foundation, gender, heresy, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, Ohio, realism, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, surgery, The Boundaries of Science, transgenderism, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology}

Standing O for Jerry Coyne?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Using his power and the prestige brand of his university to bully someone like Eric Hedin was nothing less than loathsome. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 14, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, BioEssays, censorship, creationism, crime, culture, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, Evolution News, free speech, Günter Bechly, heresy, history, Inquisition, intelligent design, Italy, Middle Ages, mystery, novels, Politics, Richard Sternberg}

Weekend Reading: Heretics and Inquisitors

_{David Klinghoffer
June 14, 2020

Scientific Freedom

2}

A heresy might be true or it might be false, but part of its attraction lies in offering a rallying cry against the smirk of the mighty. Read More ›

Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope

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Date
May 22, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Christianity, climate change, conflict myth, creationism, Discovery Institute, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, geocentrism, heliocentrism, heresy, Inquisition, John William Draper, Jonathan Wells, Michael Keas, Nature (journal), Nicolaus Copernicus, public education, religion, Roman Catholic, science and religion, Unbelievable, Warfare Thesis, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2020

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Science Reporting

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As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, Arizona State University, atheism, Ball State University, biologists, blasphemy, bullying, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, education, Eric Hedin, evolution, Free Science, freedom from religion foundation, Genesis, Gerd B. Müller, Granville Sewell, gravity, heresy, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Molecular Biology, London, Michael Lynch, Natural History Museum, New York State, pedagogy, religion, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution}

Blasphemy Against Darwin in New York State! Atheist Group Intimidates School District

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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First, it is definitely NOT against either federal law or Supreme Court precedent to teach about scientific criticisms of Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, quantum mechanics, reason, Stephen Jay Gould, theists, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
January 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, August Weismann, Barry Hall, blasphemy, central dogma, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, dogmatism, evidence, Francis Crick, heresy, ideology, John Cairns, Lamarckian theory, Luther College, Martin Luther, Matti Leisola, Max Delbrück, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Richard Lenski, Roman Catholic, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 16, 2019

Evolution

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Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›