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20Nov 2020 by Post

In the Evolution Debate, How Truth Can Prevail

academic journals, autocratic institutions, biology, bureaucracy, Chemistry, echo chamber, educational curricula, Evolution, Evolution News, free speech, Intelligent Design, mass communications, News Media, newspapers, Paul Kecskemeti, physics, readers, religious instruction, scientific materialism, totalitarianism, truth

Paul Kecskemeti’s analysis perfectly describes the challenge faced by anyone who wishes to publicly tell the truth about the evidence for design. Source

14Nov 2020 by Post

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, Culture & Ethics, dissidents, free speech, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Live Not By Lies, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize, Podcast, silencing tactics, Soviet Union, United States

Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Source

29Oct 2020 by Post

Inside the Evolution Silo — Darwinism as a Cult

ACLU, atheists, biological origins, cult, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Evolution, free speech, Granville Sewell, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, narrative, News Media, news silo, peer-reviewed literature, podcaster, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Scott Adams, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, University of Chicago, Why Evolution Is True

A major news story can break outside of the silo but, because it goes against the narrative, those in the silo will never hear about it. Source

02Oct 2020 by Post

Despite Darwinists’ Cancel Culture, Intelligent Design Has a Breakthrough in Biology Journal

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The article survived peer-review and was accepted for publication despite the open hostility of the journal’s top editors! Source

02Sep 2020 by Post

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

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In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Source

01Sep 2020 by Post

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

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This is another illustration of what Michael Egnor and others have said: intelligent design was the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to cancel culture. Source

04Aug 2020 by Post

To Avoid Debate, Darwinists at the AAAS Would Even Censor…Darwin

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A modest proposal to teach evolution the way Darwin treated his own theory has “no support” from one of the world’s most powerful scientific organizations. Source

15Jul 2020 by Post

Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

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Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Source

29Jun 2020 by Post

Here’s How We Get Around the Wikipedia Roadblock

censorship, Center for Science & Culture, chaos, COVID-19, Creativity, destruction, editors, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, freedom, Google, Günter Bechly, Human Zoos, Internet, Larry Sanger, lies, Long Story Short, pandemic, protest, Science Uprising, Seattle, Social media, thought police, truth, Twitter, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, YouTube videos

Something has gone seriously wrong in our culture. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, strict, arbitrary, and undemocratic dictates for the law-abiding, and a free-for-all for those who sow chaos disguised as “protest,” you have to wonder what will come next. In these mad times, Discovery Institute’s mission — to advance creativity over destruction — has never seemed more urgent. I want to suggest a way that you can join us in that. However, there’s a time limit: to help, you need to act by the end of Tuesday, June 30. Many Americans are isolated from others. At the same time, the King’s Highway of news, information, and inspiration — social media and other online sources — is increasingly blocked. Facebook, Google, and Twitter no longer hide their bias and censorship. Newcomers…

14Jun 2020 by Post

Weekend Reading: Heretics and Inquisitors

BioEssays, censorship, creationism, crime, Culture, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, establishment, Evolution News, free speech, Günter Bechly, Heresy, history, Inquisition, Intelligent Design, Italy, Middle Ages, mystery, novels, Politics, Richard Sternberg, The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, William of Baskerville

Years ago, reading Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose, I got bogged down early on and stopped. Rereading it now, I can’t imagine what I found boring. It’s great! A learned crime-mystery about murders in a 14th-century Italian abbey, it deals in part with the relationship between heretics and inquisitors. What Eco relates (via his protagonist William of Baskerville) has a lot of contemporary relevance. Intelligent design is a heresy against the backdrop of conformist evolutionary thinking, and ID proponents must ever beware of Darwinist inquisitors. (See the recent threat of censorship from the biology journal BioEssays.) Eco observes that inquisitions generate heretics, rather than stamping them out. That is true. Many of the leading ID scientists (Axe, Sternberg, Bechly, and others) came to us because they were…