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Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, Charles Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinism, history, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, Olufemi Oluniyi, podcast, Racism, The Descent of Man}

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

_{Science and Culture
March 8, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit}

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computers, Fox News, future, Futurism, higher education, history, LaMDA, Non-Computable You, podcast, religion, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, World Economic Forum}

Will AI “Own the World”? Robert J. Marks Talks with Laura Ingraham

_{Peter Biles
March 3, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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In response to those who believe AI will take over the world, Marks says, "Look at history." Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, Racism, Social Darwinism, Summer Seminar}

John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

_{Science and Culture
February 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

1}

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, colonialism, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, paganism, podcast, scientific racism, Scripture, World Magazine}

Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

_{David Klinghoffer
February 19, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Day, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, history, intelligent design, Michael Denton, public education, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, William Paley}

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
February 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Date
January 28, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
History of Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, atheism, Carl Sagan, Christianity, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, history, ID the Future, ISI Books, Michael Keas, Middle Ages, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, religion, science, Unbelievable, Warfare Thesis}

Michael Keas Debunks Science-Faith Warfare Myth

_{Science and Culture
January 28, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, History of Science, Physical Sciences

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“Scientists do love a good story,” says Keas. “Turns out there are plenty of stories we shouldn’t believe.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Science
Tagged
, Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, electromagnetic radiation, faith, Foresight (book), Gerhard Ertl, history, intelligent design, John West, light, Marcos Eberlin, Museum of the Bible, Nobel Prize, science, UC Berkeley, universe, Washington DC}

Another Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist for Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2023

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science

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Compton joins fellow Nobel Prize-winning physicists Charles Townes (UC Berkeley) and Brian Josephson (Cambridge University) who have likewise come out for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, atheism, Cambridge University, Chinese, compass, faith, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, Greeks, history, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John William Draper, Judeo-Christian tradition, Melissa Cain Travis, monotheism, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophers, pyramids, Robert Boyle, Romans, scientific revolution, theology, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Western Europe}

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 17, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›