Springtime Is High Season for Intelligent Design

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 28, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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What complexity there is in our water cycle, which brings life to many organisms and at the same time replenishes and renews itself. Read More ›

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Date
January 31, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, beauty, Center for Science and Culture, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, goodness, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, materialism, podcast, truth}

Listen: Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Science and Culture
January 31, 2019

Intelligent Design

1}

These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, brains, California, computers, consciousness, Darwinism, Disinherit the Wind, Hollywood, homeostasis, John West, life, Matt Chait, meditation, Purpose and Design, Scott Turner, starfish, University of California, Yiddish}

Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2019

Scientific Freedom

3}

Chait writes smart, concise dialogue on these subjects, and seems to have learned more than a thing or two from biologist Scott Turner’s recent book, Purpose and Desire. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, controversy, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, David Quammen, evolution, intelligent design, Lehigh University, life, Michael Behe, science, species}

Booklist on Behe’s Latest: “Bound to Be Controversial”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 4, 2018

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The first pre-publication reviews of Michael Behe’s new book, Darwin Devolves, are starting to come in. Read More ›

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Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Boltzmann brains, Charles Darwin, Cleanthes, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, Philo, physicists, rationality, Richard Dawkins, software, universe, vitalism, watchmaker}

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

_{Science and Culture
November 28, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Anil Seth, blind chance, brain, consciousness, evolution, life, machine, Michael Egnor, natural selection, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, Physics and Philosophy, Werner Heisenberg}

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

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One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 23, 2018

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn, Carl Sagan, Children of Light, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, electromagnetic spectrum, extraterrestrial life, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, light, materialists, Milky Way, photosynthesis, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, solar system, Stephen Hawking, sun, universe, vision, water}

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

_{David Klinghoffer
October 23, 2018

Physical Sciences

3}

“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 12, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", belief, Biola University, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, faith, IDEA Club, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, life, science, scientism, Scientism and Secularism (book), theistic evolution}

In a New Book, Philosopher J.P. Moreland Exposes Bankrupt Scientism

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 12, 2018

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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A chemist-turned-philosopher, J.P. Moreland approaches the intersection of science and worldviews with a love and respect for both. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, duty to die, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, Hastings Center Report, health, health insurance, John Hardwig, life, medical care, medicine, rationing, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, body, female, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, life, Love Thy Body, male, materialists, Nancy Pearcey, nature, podcast, sexuality}

Nancy Pearcey Urges Inconsistent Materialists: Love Thy Body

_{Science and Culture
August 19, 2018

Bioethics, Philosophy

1}

One inconsistency is their unlivable claim that “we have no free will.” Read More ›