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John G. West

Date
January 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 16, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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, cichlid fish, evolution, evolutionary icons, fatty acids, intelligent design, natural genetic engineering, phenotypic plasticity, scientific materialism, stickleback fish}

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 15, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
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, atheism, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, England, intelligent design, movies, Oxford, scientific materialism, The Most Reluctant Convert}

Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3

_{John G. West
October 15, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe. Read More ›

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Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinists, evidence, evolution, hype, ID the Future, ideology, Jonathan Wells, journalists, podcast, scientific materialism, scientists, skepticism, vertebrate eye, Zombie Science (book)}

Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

_{Science & Culture
October 5, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Arizona State University, biological information, chemicals, Inference (journal), intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Justin Brierley, mainstream science, MIT, molecules, Paul Davies, religions, scientific materialism, self-replicating machines, Unbelievable}

England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
July 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, jokes, multiverse theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific materialism, Stephen Meyer, theism, YouTube videos}

Meyer: Materialism’s “Wild West of Weirdo Explanations”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2021

Physical Sciences

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The multiverse theory, one target of Meyer’s book, does beg for a parodist’s touch, which it obtains here. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, assumptions, axioms, Charles Darwin, incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel, Peter Atkins, scientific materialism, scientism, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, William Lane Craig}

How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 26, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 16, 2021

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, cancel culture, censorship, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Hedin, Europe, free speech, freedom from religion foundation, Indiana, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, naturalism, News, pre-order, purpose, scientific materialism, University of Washington}

New Book by Physicist Eric Hedin Challenges Atheist Cancel Culture

_{Jonathan Witt
February 16, 2021

Scientific Freedom

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Atheists targeted the Ball State University scientist after they learned his honors course dared to expose students to evidence of design in the universe. Read More ›