Tag: United Kingdom

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, atheism, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Avebury, Bishop of Exeter, Book of Job, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Corsica, Darwinism, Dennis Harding, False Messiah, Gregory the Great, hochvart, Hugh Trevor-Roper, James Henry Froude, John Aubrey, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kellow Chesney, Lisbon earthquake, London, Middle High German, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Peace of Augsburg, Pentre Ifan, Poor Henry, practical atheists, Ring of Brodgar, secularization, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stonehenge, symmetry thesis, The Nemesis of Faith, The Victorian Underworld, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Voltaire}

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›

Human embryo shaped like an adorable baby floating among stars and cosmic dust, symbolizing fetus development, womb, gestation, amniotic life, and pregnancy in the universe

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, anthropomorphizing, artificial gestation, Cell Press, China, egg, embryo, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, fetus, human embryos, IVF, miscarriages, MIT Technology Review:, organoids, pregnancy, Spain, Stem Cell Research, unborn children, United Kingdom, United States, uterine lining, uterus, Vermont, women}

How Far Will Experiments on the Unborn Go?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics

3}

We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, beauty, biochemistry, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Europe, Giuseppe Sermonti, Grzegorz Malec, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Italy, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Nature, Norway, order, paleontologists, physiology, Poland, Seattle, United Kingdom, United States, utilitarianism, Venice}

At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future

_{John G. West
October 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, boys, California, children, Colorado, courts, discrimination, female sports, feminists, gender, girls, hormones, ideology, law, Maine, men, puberty blockers, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States, women}

From the UK, Good News for Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

2}

Here’s hoping that in the U.S., women and girls can again be secure in female-only spaces. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Bill Clinton, culture, Donald Trump, extraterrestrials, Facebook, Jimmy Carter, jokes, King’s College, science, science fiction, United Kingdom, United States, universe}

Is Belief in Aliens a Problem for Science?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 11, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

5}

King’s College philosophy prof Tony Milligan worries that too many people believe that aliens have visited Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, education, Europe, evolution, faith and science, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, professors, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, South America, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, theism, undergraduates, United Kingdom, United States, worldview}

Summer Seminars Create the Next Generation of Intelligent Design

_{Tova Levengood
March 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Science Education

4}

Jacob Butschek, one of our 2023 international seminar students, shared his story with me. “Theism gets hammered by society and universities,” he says. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, americans, China, ecocide, fauna, flora, geological features, human rights, industry, liberty, litigation, nature rights, The Guardian, United Kingdom, United Nations, Western civilization}

Granting Rights to Nature Is Being Negotiated at the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

3}

“Nature rights” and “ecocide” are part of the effort among radicals to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Date
February 24, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, data, economics, Elsevier, Gary Smith, Netherlands, New Zealand, Retraction Watch, science journals, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom}

Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air

_{Science & Culture
February 24, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

5}

While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›

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Date
July 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Cambridge, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eric Metaxas, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Politics, science, Undeniable (book), United Kingdom}

Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

_{Science & Culture
July 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

“The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise?” Read More ›