Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

Anthropic Principle, articles, beginning, Big Bang, Books, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Murray, cosmology, earthquake, Elon Musk, Faith & Science, floods, Intelligent Design, John West, Larry Sanger, machinery, megaphone, physics, pumps, Research, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Seattle, Social media, Stephen Meyer, Steve Buri, universe, Wikipedia, writing
As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Source
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On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

Artificial Intelligence, bias, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, encyclopedias, Evolution, facts, fine-tuning, Grok, Grokipedia, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Intelligent Design, Jarvis, Larry Sanger, Nine Theses, Philosophy of Science, pseudoscience, Reece Rogers, think tank, United States, Wikipedia, William Dembski, Wired
There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Source
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St. George Jackson Mivart: A Historical Snapshot

Charles Darwin, Church of England, Darwin's bulldog, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, evolutionism, excommunication, Faith & Science, faith and science, General Morphology of Organisms, Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, historical figures, history, James Barham, King’s College, Lincoln’s Inn, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, social elite, St. George Jackson Mivart, Thomas Henry Huxley, Wikipedia, William Dembski
In the end, Darwin, Huxley, and their friends collectively decided to “cut him dead,” meaning to ostracize him socially. Source
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Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, scientific reasoning, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Source
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Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

Antonio Gramsci, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Rufo, Communists, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, How the Regime Rules, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, Marxists, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Plato, Plato's Revenge, political science, Richard Sternberg, scripture, Stephen Meyer, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, William Dembski
There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Source
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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, aurora, aurora australis, aurora borealis, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Faith & Science, Geology, geomagnetic storm, helium, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, Junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, magnetic field lines, magnetic particles, magnetosphere, materialists, neon, nitrogen, northern lights, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, vortex, Wikipedia
You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Source
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

Charles Thaxton, complex specified order, English, Evolution, Francis Crick, information theory, Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, Leslie Orgel, letters, On Protein Synthesis, Paul Davies, random order, repetitive order, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, William Dembski
What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Source
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