Big Tech Wants to Control the Future; Here’s What We Can Do About That

1984, algorithms, Ann Gauger, Big Tech, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, censorship, Darwin’s Cancel Culture, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, dystopia, Emily Reeves, Evolution News, free speech, George Orwell, Günter Bechly, information, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan Wells, memory hole, Michael Behe, Ministry of Truth, News Media, Paul Nelson, scientists, Stephen Meyer
According to the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Source
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Ann Bauer: Science Tyranny, Science Uprising

Ann Bauer, autism, behavior training, biofeedback, brain chemistry, Bruno Bettelheim, cross-patterning, Evolution, Faith & Science, Gestalt, gurus, Intelligent Design, masks, Medicine, New York City, origins science, Orthogenic School, pandemic, Science Uprising, scientists, sensory integration, Tablet, talk therapy, tyranny
Do yourself a favor and read a heartbreaking and beautifully written essay, "I Have Been Through This Before." Source
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Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Adaptive Radiation, Amy McDermott, biology, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, cichlids, Daniel Rabosky, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, founder effect, Hawaii, Intelligent Design, Jae Young Choi, Junk DNA, Metrosideros, MIT, Neo-Darwinism, New Zealand, oceanic islands, Ole Seehausen, PNAS, Research, University of Michigan, Whitehead Institute, Yuan Yuan
Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Source
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Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?

astronomy, atmosphere, beauty, chemical elements, Doppler effect, helium, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Physics, Earth & Space, rainbows, René Descartes, solar eclipse, spectroscope, stars, sun, telescope, The Privileged Planet, Titan, universe, Venus, water, William Huggins, William Hyde Wollaston
Yes, rainbows are beautiful, but are they good for anything? Indeed, they have been very important for science. Source
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Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cadillac, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chromosome 2, common ancestor, common features, Elon Musk, Evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, fusion event, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge
Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Source
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Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine-Tuned

biology, Daniel Díaz, Discovery Institute, entropy, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mind Matters News, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, probability theory, Robert J. Marks II, Stockholm University, University of Miami, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
At the center of the discussion are three technical papers, each co-authored by one or more of the three members of the podcast discussion. Source
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Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality

Alan Guth, Big Bang, Bruno Valeixo Bento, causal set, causal set cosmology, cosmology, entropy, Ethan Siegel, Flatiron Institute, gravitational contraction, Intelligent Design, NASA, oscillating model, Paul Sutter, Physics, Earth & Space, Planck length, Pluto, Stav Zalel, Stephen Meyer, Stony Brook University, universe
Here I will address another desperate attempt to avoid a cosmic beginning, this one by astrophysicist Paul Sutter. Source
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The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

abortion, Bible, Casey Luskin, China, Christianity, Christianity Today, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian evolution, Downs syndrome, Ed Stetzer, ENCODE, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gain-of-function research, George W. Bush, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Mark Galli, Medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Carome, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, pastores, premature babies, professors, pundists, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, vaccination
The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source
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Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)

Alan Guth, Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde, BGV, Bible, Big Bang, Christianity, CMBR, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmology, critics, Ethan Siegel, Evolution, Harry Potter, inflationary theory, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, universe, Voldemort
The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Source
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