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David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, conflict, culture, David Lloyd, episodes, Guy Fawkes, holidays, isolation, masks, science, Science Uprising, spiders, tyranny, worry}

Science Uprising — In the Year of the Mask

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The series is aimed at reaching Generation Z. And wow, not least in this year of isolation, worry, and conflict, do young people need it! Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, COVID-19, Halloween, holidays, intelligent design, masks, natural design, social distancing, spiders, webs}

Don’t Be Frightened! It’s Just a Spider

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

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It's going to be a different kind of Halloween. Socially distant trick-or-treating? And somehow masks seems less festive in 2020. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, American Chemical Society, arachnids, Australia, cancer, dragline silk, horseshoe crabs, Jurgen Otto, mites, Nature Communications, scorpions, spiders, ticks, toxins, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, venom}

Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, argument from incredulity, bees, biological information, bugs, butterflies, Charles Darwin, China, cockroaches, Darwinists, design intuition, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, fleas, flies, football field, gears, genes, humans, insects, intelligent design, logical fallacy, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, nature, planthopper, Secrets of the Cell, spiders, video series}

In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 26, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Arizona State University, Biomimetics, centipedes, cilia, electricity, electron transport, genes, genomes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, materials science, metabolism, Michael Behe, miRNA, orb webs, photosynthesis, physiology, spiders, swimming, Tohoku University, University of North Carolina, University of Otago}

Care for Appetizers? Electric Proteins, Spidey Sense, and More

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2020

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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Welcome to the second day of the New Year! Like tasty sliders, these short news stories should get the juices flowing for big developments in 2020. Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, friends, Halloween, icons, intelligent design, spiders, webs}

Halloween Countdown No. 4: Creepy Crawlers

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Enjoy — and share with your friends! (Go ahead. It won’t bite, we promise.) Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, __edited, adrenaline, buffalo, cats, chimpanzees, clitoris, Doctor's Diary (series), Dogs, dolphins, eggs, evolutionary tree, fertilization, Genesis, humans, intelligent design, intimacy, Judaism, mammals, Neanderthals, norepinephrine, ovaries, ovum, PNAS, poem, sex, sperm, spiders, starfish}

Doctor’s Diary: The Human Difference and the Design of Sex

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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It’s safe to say that human intimacy, at its best, surpasses that of any animal, even the most intelligent. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, animals, chimpanzees, counting, frogs, goats, intelligence, Kyoto University, Natalie Angier, New York Times, numbers, Royal Society, spiders}

Sure, Animals Count; But Can They Count?

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 9, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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What is the nature, and extent, of animal intelligence? Read More ›

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Date
December 5, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), beetles, Biomimetics, bivalve, eyes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Leslie Orgel, Lund University, Mollusca, mollusk, retina, scallops, seafood, spiders, telescope, Weizmann Institute, Why Evolution Is True}

Telescope-Like Eyes in a “Simple” Mollusk

_{Science and Culture
December 5, 2017

Intelligent Design

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Scientists were dumbfounded to find shellfish looking at them with hundreds of elegantly designed eyes. Read More ›

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Date
July 24, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Biomimetics, intelligent design, PNAS, spider silk, Spider-Man, spiders, University of Cambridge, webs}

From Freakout to Admiration: Why Spiders Should Inspire Us

_{Science and Culture
July 24, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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We need to overcome the natural fright reaction and see what we can learn from our eight-legged neighbors on the planet. Read More ›