Tag: wisdom

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemistry, Book of Nature, creatures, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Daniel Reeves, divine design, earth, Emily Reeves, engineering, enzymes, hydrogen, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, plant leaves, plants, Robert Boyle, Sabbatarians, Sabbath, scientists, solar panels, vegetation, water molecule, wisdom}

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›

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Author
Wayne Rossiter

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bird vocalizations, birds, bluetooth, Bob Placier, character, culture, fast food, Henry David Thoreau, meaning, Merlin, Neil Peart, Ohio, ornithology, personhood, piggy bank, restaurants, rhinoceros, Rush, wildlife, wisdom}

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

_{Wayne Rossiter
May 16, 2025

Technology, Zoology

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Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, biology textbooks, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, friendship, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, peppered moths, podcast, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, wisdom}

A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Biden Administration, Covid vaccines, COVID-19, Francis Collins, John West, junk DNA, lockdowns, masks, National Institutes of Health, Politics, schools, skeptics, The Federalist, The Road to Wisdom, Vaccines, wisdom}

Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, panpsychism, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 5, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, data points, facts, Frodo, gravitation, ideas, intelligence, intelligent design, Issac Newton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion, living cell, nothing buttery, professors, students, The Lord of the Rings, tyranny, universe, wisdom}

As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
December 5, 2023

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, Christopher Hitchens, cosmos, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, evolution, human condition, human nature, humans, military history, mind, nobility, progress, Romans, Science After Babel, Socrates in the City, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, universe, war, wisdom}

Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Technology

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Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", angiosperms, animals, atheism, bears, boars, Darwinian theory, Energy, fire, hunger, insects, life, lions, matter, modern times, Mount St. Helens, natural selection, nutrition, purpose, religions, sharks, struggle, succession, volcanoes, wisdom}

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, In Memoriam, Marxism, Minnesota, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Richard Lewontin, Suzanne Nelson, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish}

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

_{Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 7, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, Brian Keating, debate, Galileo Galilei, knowledge, morality, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, rioting, scientists, Stephen Meyer, U.C. San Diego, wisdom}

Brian Keating: Getting Nervous About “Follow the Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 7, 2021

Physical Sciences

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These are EXCELLENT. I would say the themes of all three have to do with the importance of not worshipping scientists or imagining that science is infallible. Read More ›