Tag: Northwestern University

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Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Andy May, Approved Views, carbon dioxide, climate change, Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman, Marty Rowland, Micaiah Bilger, Northwestern University, Orwellian, peer pressure, political correctness, psychology, The College Fix, The Hill, transgenderism, trust-fund babies, University of Michigan, Watts Up With That?}

Even Scientists Are Starting to Doubt “Approved Views”

_{Science and Culture
August 28, 2025

Environment & Climate, Psychology, Scientific Freedom

3}

A recent Orwellian firing gives some insight into what happens when an academic collides with Political Correctness. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, academic publishing, artificial inteligence, authorships, citations, government, John Sexton, misconduct, Moore’s law, Northwestern University, PNAS, publications, science, science fraud, science publishers, scientific literature, scientific process, stakeholders, standards, technology, trust}

Fraudulent Science Networks Outpace Legitimate Science

_{Science and Culture
August 6, 2025

Ethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

"Before the public loses confidence in the scientific process"? Hasn't that train already left the station? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropod, brain injuries, Emily Reeves, evolutionary fitness landscape, Hubble Space Telescope, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, mantis shrimp, Nature (journal), Northwestern University, Science (journal), structural color}

Sophisticated Energy Shield Found in a Shrimp

_{David Coppedge
February 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

A sophisticated energy-absorbing structure has been discovered in the mantis shrimp’s dactyl club that protects the animal from its own shock waves. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 4, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carly Cassella, emotions, feelings, human brain, neurons, neuroscience, Northwestern University, phase transition, ScienceAlert, thoughts, universe, water}

Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

_{Science and Culture
July 4, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alvin Plantinga, Barbara Forrest, brain, C.S. Lewis, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Christianity, cosmologists, goodness, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, monkey, National Association of Scholars, Northwestern University, Paul Gross, physical laws, post-truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Steven Pinker, William Graham, woke ideology, worldview}

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
December 11, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Reproductive Science

9}

I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cats, Darwinism, Dogs, evolutionary theory, information, intelligent design, lobsters, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, whiskers}

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, Bruce Gordon, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, dialogue, Discovery Institute, General Scholium, Houston Baptist University, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Kalam cosmological argument, methodological naturalism, Michael Ruse, Northwestern University, On the Origin of Species, public education, Robert Boyle, theistic evolution, Three Views on Christianity and Science}

New “Three Views” Book Explores the Relationship of Faith and Science

_{Casey Luskin
May 20, 2021

Faith & Science

11}

Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen inaccurate descriptions of intelligent design from Professor McGrath. Read More ›

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Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, Chinese Academy of Sciences, cockroach, engineers, geckos, humpback whale, intelligent design, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Max Planck Institute, Nature Communications, Northwestern University, pollen, Robert Full, sea slug, squid, U.C. Irvine, U.C. San Diego, University of Bristol, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Wright brothers}

Human Engineers Can’t Top These Biological Intelligent Designs

_{Science and Culture
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

In labs around the world, scientists are fascinated by living designs. Here are just a few examples of what is being reported on a weekly basis. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 13, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Alan Dershowitz, Ben Shapiro, blueprint, Columbia University, David Berlinski, Dennis Prager, Evergreen State College, Fox News, Frank Bruni, free speech, Halloween, Hollywood, human nature, ID the Future, journalism, New York Times, Northwestern University, Phoenix, Stephen Meyer, Steve Buri, U.C. Berkeley, Yale University}

No Safe Spaces Opens Big Across the Country

_{David Klinghoffer
November 13, 2019

Scientific Freedom

4}

Obviously, this is a subject that bears directly on the Darwin debate. Evolution skeptics were the canary in this particular coal mine. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Charles Darwin, conservatism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, infanticide, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, John Maynard Smith, Joseph Stalin, National Review, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, On the Origin of Species, Politics, Razib Khan, Richard Lenski, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker}

Déjà Vu at National Review

_{Michael Behe
May 14, 2019

Biology, Science Reporting

6}

Some guy once wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun. He must have had political conservatives’ pro-Darwin arguments in mind. Read More ›