Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

Archaeology, Argument from Reason, Bedouins, chimps, crows, design filter, Design Inference, designer, Evolution, fairy circles, geoglyphs, geometric structures, Intelligent Design, John West, Jordan, Live Science, Middle East, Namibia, Nazca Lines, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Syria, World War I, Yemen
There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Source
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Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Adolf Hitler, Carrie Buck, Catholics, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, forced sterilization, history, John West, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., religious leaders, Richard Weikart, scientists, Supreme Court, United States
One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. 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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Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

Adolf Hitler, alt-right, Aryan race, blacks, California State University Stanislaus, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Evolution, history, Holocaust, Jews, John West, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slavs, webinar, Whoopi Goldberg
Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Source
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Christmas Thought — Intelligent Design Is Good News that Brings Hope

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Christmas, Christmas songs, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Flannery, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer
I am sitting here listening to Christmas songs as old as I am. Doesn’t anyone write new Christmas songs? Source
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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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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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Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

A Journal of the Plague Year, Charles F. Mullett, common descent, Copernican principle, Daniel Defoe, Evolution, Faith & Science, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, Natural Law and the Structure of Matter, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, Ruth Barton, scientism, St. Martin's Hall, Stephen Porter, The X Men, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club, Yersinia pestis
Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Source
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Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

African Americans, Amazon Prime, And Still We Rise, Angela King, apes, Bronx Zoo, Charles H. Wright Museum, Culture & Ethics, Detroit, Discovery Institute, documentary, eugenics, Evolution, forced sterilization, Human Zoos, humans, John West, missing links, Monkey House, New York City, Ota Benga, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Saartjie Baartman, Social Darwinism, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Wayne State University
The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Source
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