23Apr 2025 by Post

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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21Apr 2025 by Post

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elites, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, Evolution, Faith & Science, George Weigel, Intelligent Design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholicism, Secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Source
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19Apr 2025 by Post

Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

Astronomer Royal, astronomers, atmosphere, BBC News, Big Think, biosignature, Catherine Heymans, CBC, Christopher Glein, CNN, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfide, earth, exoplanet, Hyacean ocean planet, Intelligent Design, K2-18b, magma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, molten rock, Neptune, New York Times, Nora Hänni, Oliver Shorttle, phytoplankton algae, Planetology, rocky planet, Sara Seager, Science (journal), Science Reporting, Sky at Night Magazine, solar system, Southwest Research Institute, University of Bern
The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Source
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18Apr 2025 by Post

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, Intelligent Design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Neuroscience & Mind, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu, zoology
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Source
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16Apr 2025 by Post

Help Us Mentor the Next Generation of Intelligent Design Scientists and Scholars

Alumni Mentoring Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Brian DeVries, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Education, educators, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionary biology, ID 3.0 Research Initiative, IDEA Clubs, Intelligent Design, Ivy League, Jonathan McLatchie, science education, scientists, South America, Steve Dilley, students, Summer Seminar graduates, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design
Emily Reeves, a PhD staff scientist at Discovery Institute, has mentored an Ivy League postdoc in the field of molecular biology for the past five years. Source
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14Apr 2025 by Post

Sporulation: Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

apoptosis, axial filament, Bacillus subtilis, biological systems, chromosome, cortex, dehydration, desiccation, dormancy, Evolution, flagellar genes, forespore, gene-coding, heat, Intelligent Design, master-architect, mother cell, peptidoglycan, regulator, Salmonella, signaling protein, Spo0A, SpoIIR, spore, spore coats, sporulation, transcriptional hierarchy, UV radiation
Examples like this suggest the existence of a master-architect behind biological systems. Source
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12Apr 2025 by Post

Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

abolitionism, Adrian Desmond, anti-slavery, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinian theory, Darwin’s Bluff, Evolution, historical fiction, history of science, Human Origins and Anthropology, ID The Future, indigenous peoples, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Michael Keas, Podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, truth
A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Source
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