Italian Center on Intelligent Design Holds Launch Event

Austria, Bechly, Carlo Alberto Cossano, Center for Biocomplexity and Natural Teleology, Center for Science & Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, criminals, Discovery Institute, Dissent from Darwinism, Events, Evolution, Ferdinando Catalano, Galileo Galilei, Giuseppe Sermonti, Human Zoos, Intelligent Design, Italy, John West, Kingdom of Italy, Marco Respinti, philosophers, scientists, theologians, Turin, University of Molise, University of Padua, YouTube videos
The city of Turin was an especially fitting place for the public launch of a group focusing on intelligent design. Source
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Event Report: Design and the Designer

biology, Biomimetics, COVID-19, Daniel Reeves, design triangulation, Emily Reeves, Eric Metaxas, faith, Faith & Science, history of science, human foot, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, John West, Michael Keas, Olympics, Philadelphia, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Systems Biology, theology, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Source
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

assisted suicide, beauty, COVID-19, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, death, embryo, Enlightenment, ethics, euthanasia, Evolution, free speech, ingenuity, intelligence, John West, Medicine, New York Times, physicians, racehorse, speech, Terri Shiavo, theology, totalitarian science, unborn
The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Source
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The Human Cost of Coercive Science

babysitter, child development, COVID-19, crime rates, Culture & Ethics, daycare, Douglas Axe, economists, Education, free speech, Georgia, handcuffs, Jay Richards, Johns Hopkins University, Les Misérables, lockdown, Medicine, Melissa Henderson, mental health, mortality, online schooling, Religious Liberty, science, suicides, The Price of Panic, unemployment, William Briggs
Lockdowns were imposed on society in the name of science, although the actual scientific basis of many of the measures employed was unclear at best. Source
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Darwinian Racism: D.C. Official Would See Unvaccinated Die of COVID as a “Necessary Evil”

African Americans, booster shot, Breitbart News, churches, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Dennis Prager, Elliot Tommingo, Evolution, Jonathan Lubecky, Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs, pandemic, Richard Weikart, synagogues, The Daily Wire, Twitter, unvaccinated, vaccination, Washington DC
Elliot Tommingo holds the opinion that residents too stupid not to get vaccinated should die. Source
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A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Camille Griffin, Christmas, Christmas carols, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Davida McKenzie, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, House Beautiful, Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, Matthew Goode, Medicine, movies, pandemic, profanity, Republicans, Roman Griffin Davis, Russia, scientists, Secularism, Silent Night, Sope Dirisu, spoilers, The Abolition of Man
The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Source
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Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism 

atheists, Baruch Spinoza, Betraying Spinoza, consensus, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, Faith & Science, human exceptionalism, Humanize, Intelligent Design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, mind-brain question, Rebecca Goldstein, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, uncanny, Wesley Smith
Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Source
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Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

Bill Clinton, Center for Science & Culture, China, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, David French, ENCODE, Evolution, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, John West, Junk DNA, National Institutes of Health, proteins, Religion News Service, The Language of God, The Origin of Species, theology, vaccinations, Wuhan
President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Source
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Following the Science, Doctors Joined the Nazis “In Droves”

African Americans, Africans, Alfred Hoche, Allison Hopper, Ashley K. Fernandes, biocracy, bioethicists, Bruce Chapman, Charles B. Davenport, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, Darwinists, doctors, eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, Germans, history, Karl Binding, Karl Pearson, Medicine, Nazis, nurses, Ohio State University, physicians, Racism, Scientific American, scientific racism, social pandemic, sterilization, Tablet, white coat, white supremacy
There is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality. Source
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Dallas Conference on Science & Faith: In Person or Livestream

attendees, CDC, COVID-19, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Denton Bible Church, Department of State Health Services, Events, Faith & Science, fossil record, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, Stephen Meyer, Texas, tickets, volunteers, William Dembski
Those who choose to join in person will find that we are taking every reasonable precaution to protect our attendees, volunteers, and staff. Source
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