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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, David Barash, dehumanization, evolutionary theory, Holy Grail, humans, humanzee, Nautilus, pain, Rob Sheldon, Soviet Union, Templeton Foundation, University of Washington, worms}

Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Against the Tide, atheism, Communism, Eastern Europe, faith and science, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, mathematician, Oxford University, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientists, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, worldview}

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

_{Science & Culture
December 10, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States}

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), beauty, Christianity, Florida, George Orwell, Germany, James B. Meigs, Nazis, Politics, religion, Soviet Union, textbooks, United States}

War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2023

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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At some point, it might be reasonable to ask, why is religion forbidden while politics is allowed to invade everything? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anxiety, atheism, Charles Darwin, Communism, crime, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Dante Alighieri, demons, evil, fentanyl, Fyodor Dostoevsky, homeless, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, Judeo-Christian tradition, mutilation, Return of the God Hypothesis, Russia, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, suicide, Templeton Prize, universe}

40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, China, churches, COVID-19, Dennis Prager, dystopia, expertise, experts, God Hypothesis, isolation, lockdown, Marxism, materialism, Return of the God Hypothesis, riots, secularism, Soviet Union, synagogues, The Matrix, totalitarianism, tyranny, United States, unvaccinated}

Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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The insight is timely, given the two-year anniversary of lockdowns that we’ve recently observed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, anti-science, atheism, Ball State University, Big Tech, BioEssays, Canceled Science, Casey Luskin, conspiracy theorists, Darwinian theory, Eric Hedin, evolution, intellectual freedom, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, power, schools, Soviet Union, survey, The Federalist, United States, University of Michigan, Wikipedia}

Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 9, 2021

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, Final Solution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Barzun, Karl Marx, Michael Flannery, Nazi Germany, New York Times, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Wagner, Richard Weikart, Signature in the Cell, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021

Bioethics

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Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 19, 2021

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, atheism, Christian colleges, Christianity, computational biology, creation science, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, multiverse theory, Nobel laureates, North Korea, Richard Feynman, S. Joshua Swamidass, scientific revolution, South Korea, Soviet Union, United States, Wall Street Journal}

Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges

_{Michael Egnor
March 19, 2021

Evolutionary Psychology, Science Education

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The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy. Read More ›