Tag: The Atlantic

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Agustín Fuentes, cancel culture, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologists, Fox & Friends, gender, gender medicine, Harvard University, Helen Lewis, Princeton University, puberty blockers, Sex Is a Spectrum, Steven Pinker, survival, T: The Story of Testosterone, Tablet, The Atlantic, The Lancet, truth, Washington Post}

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Prometheus, Anika Smith, artificial intelligence, atomic bomb, Bhagavad Gita, bioethics, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, cosmology, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, dissenters, East Coast, evolution, Evolution News, Evolution News and Views, Grok, intelligent design, iPhone, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John West, Kai Bird, Katherine West, Martin Sherwin, masks, media, Nathan Jacobson, National Review, neuroscience, origins science, Phaedrus, Plato, Plato’s Revenge, public health, Richard Sternberg, Sanskrit, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Century, The Divine Comedy, University of Colorado, Wall Street Journal}

Introducing a New Design, and a New Name

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

7}

Conjoining science with culture, while it is the CSC’s calling card, is not our invention. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, Auld Lang Syne, Be Ceremonial, Canada, Catholic priests, children, culture, death, Disrupting Death, doctors, Elaina Plott Calabro, euthanasia, faith, funeral home, garden, homicides, life, Ontario, pajama party, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, suicides, The Atlantic}

The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

2}

As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, bioethics, culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic}

Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

4}

The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anole lizards, Charles Darwin, complex systems, complexity, Democrats, empiricism, evidence for evolution, evolution, foresight, gene flow, Georgia Tech, hemoglobin, lactose, mice, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, Republicans, Rosemary Grant, speciation, The Atlantic, Tibet, University of Konstanz}

“Evolution in Real Time” (Yeah, Right)

_{Daniel Witt
January 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

Yet another article announces a sociological study has found public attention towards the lionfish “is aiding in monitoring its evolution nearly in real time.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Big Bang, evolution, free speech, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Krebs cycle, National Academies of Science, New Zealand, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Stephen Jay Gould, The Atlantic, The College Fix, water cycle}

After Dawkins Is Canceled, What Comes Next?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Freedom

5}

Richard Dawkins recently objected to the idea that Māori myths should be taught in science class alongside the Big Bang. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert, František Baluška, garden, Paco Calvo, plant rights, scientists, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel, weeds, Zoë Schlanger}

To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 7, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, Antony Flew, anxiety, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, depression, Huffington Post, Professor Dave, religious believers, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Sam Harris, suicide, The Atlantic, There Is a God}

Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

5}

It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, house plants, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, Swiss Constitution, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap, wildflowers, Zoë Schlanger}

Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, COSM, Dataism, Harvard University Press, human nature, humanism, Latin, Reductionism, Renaissance, Sam Altman, Substack, The Atlantic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wired, Yuval Harari}

Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

_{Peter Biles
August 31, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›