Category: scientists

07Jan 2021 by Post

Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?

anti-science, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, ethics, experts, John West, morals, Nuremberg Code, observation, Politicians, progress, religious beliefs, scientists, technocracy, The Magician’s Twin, Wesley Smith, Worldview

Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Source

21Nov 2020 by Post

Funny and Thoughtful Intelligent Design-Themed T-shirts? We’ve Got Them!

Center for Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, employment, humor, Intelligent Design, privacy, scientists, t-shirts, wearable designs, Zazzle

If you are in a vulnerable employment situation, please enjoy these shirts only in the privacy of your own home. Source

11Nov 2020 by Post

From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking in Three Catastrophic Steps

Against the Tide, Atheism, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Isaac Newton, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, logic, mathematicians, Oxford University, religion, scientific explanation, scientists, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theism

Nothing is more poisonous, for the young and the old alike, than the perception that the smart money is all on atheism. Of course, it’s not. Source

27Oct 2020 by Post

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Source

15Oct 2020 by Post

Taking Applications Now to Be Our New Education and Outreach Coordinator!

activism, biology, Center for Science & Culture, cosmology, Daniel Reeves, Education, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Education & Outreach Director, Evidence, grassroots, hope, ID Education Day, Intelligent Design, mission, scientists, Summer Seminars

What if ID scientists went about their work, uncovering evidence of purpose and meaning in biology and cosmology, but…no one ever heard about it? Source

08Oct 2020 by Post

Helen Hansma: Round Two on the Origin of Life

biophysics, Evolution, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, mica, origin of life, physics, respect, scientists, U.C. Santa Barbara

My interlocutor was Helen Hansma who pioneered the mica-sheet origin-of-life model. Source

10Sep 2020 by Post

James Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life”

abiogenesis, Andrews University, California, Evolution, hype, Intelligent Design, James Tour, misinformation, nonlife, Oregon, origin of life, Rice University, science media, scientists, Seattle, smoke, synthetic organic chemistry, wildfires

Blowing smoke is what science media and even scientists themselves do a great deal of the time when they talk about the origin of life. Source

01Sep 2020 by Post

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

Andrew Sullivan, canary in the coal mine, cancel culture, censorship, Evolution, free speech, human dignity, human exceptionalism, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, New York Magazine, News Media, Race, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, scientists, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, The Bell Curve, The New Republic

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

30Aug 2020 by Post

C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential

C.S. Lewis, ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, John West, knowledge, morality, public policy, scientism, scientists, That Hideous Strength, The Magician’s Twin, totalitarianism

According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge. Source

26Aug 2020 by Post

Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis

bio-conservatives, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, Culture & Ethics, ethics, Judeo-Christian tradition, magic, morality, Prophecy, science, scientists, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, theism, twins

This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Source