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31Mar 2023 by Post

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

agency, Andrea Roli, biology, computer science, economy, ecosystems, Engineering, Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, innovation, Intelligent Design, Johannes Jaeger, mechanistic science, naturalism, ontology, Philosophy of Science, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, skating, social sciences, Stuart A. Kauffman, teleological behavior, teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source

30Mar 2023 by Post

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

BIO-Complexity, biologists, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, common descent, Complexity, developmental pathway, embryo, embryonic development, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, extraembryonic tissues, fish, gastrulation, homology, Life Sciences, Louise Roth, mammals, mutations, natural selection, P.Z. Myers, phylotypic stages, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, vertebrates

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Source

29Mar 2023 by Post

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

Africa, bacteria, Biomimetics, birds, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinists, drone, Evolution, evolutionary pressure, human exceptionalism, human history, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lawyers, Mark Rober, Michael Behe, NASA, Olufemi Oluniyi, owls, personification, pupfish, Rwanda, science, shopping, Social Darwinism, vitalism, Zipline

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Source

28Mar 2023 by Post

Rescuing Evolutionary Theory from Darwinian Mythology

Charles Darwin, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Luther College, Michael Keas, natural selection, Podcast, Robert Shedinger, science, science history, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms

Robert Shedinger reports on the contrast between Darwin’s private view of his theory of natural selection and the public view as detailed in his published work. Source

26Mar 2023 by Post

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Culture, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Jonathan Swift, literature, Michael D. Aeschliman, philosophy, Podcast, Reductionism, scientism, Stanley L. Jaki, The Restoration of Man, theology

These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human. Source

25Mar 2023 by Post

Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Restoration of Man

Andrew McDiarmid, C.S. Lewis, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Michael D. Aeschliman, natural law, Podcast, scientism, Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man

As Michael D. Aeschliman notes, Lewis powerfully illustrated the shortcomings and dangers of scientism in his final Space Trilogy novel. Source

24Mar 2023 by Post

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

assisted suicide, barbiturates, controlled substances, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, DEA, death, Death with Dignity, doctor shopping, doctors, euthanasia, house calls, lethal injection, Medicine, morphine, nurse practitioners, opiates, pandemic, patients, science, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, terminal illness

What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Source

23Mar 2023 by Post

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

amniotes, amphibians, anamniotes, BIO-Complexity, biology, birds, blastula, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, David Swift, development, developmental biology, ectoderm, endoderm, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, Evolution Under the Microscope, gastrulation, germ layers, homologous organs, homology, Intelligent Design, lancelets, mammals, mesoderm, neurulation, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, science, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate development, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Source

22Mar 2023 by Post

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

bioethics, Canada, cerebral palsy, Christiane Belzile, crime, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Edmonton Journal, euthanasia, euthanasia consciousness, Francois Belzile, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, Medicine, murder, Robert Latimer, science

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Source

21Mar 2023 by Post

Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

biology, Culture, Education, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Podcast, researchers, scientists, teachers, The Stream, Tom Gilson

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Source