22Jul 2024 by Post

Melissa Cain Travis Is in New Zealand — See Her in Tauranga This Weekend

Albert Einstein, Center for Science and Culture, cosmology, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, science and faith, Tauranga, theism, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Thinking Matters Conference, universe
Our colleague Dr. Melissa Cain Travis is among the most popular speakers on intelligent design. Source
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02Jun 2024 by Post

On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Australia, Brookline, cancer, cocaine, Culture & Ethics, European Union, fentanyl, fossil fuels, global warming, hard drugs, health emergency, Malaysia, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, meat, Medicine, meth, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, nicotine, Norway, Oregon, Philippines, Singapore, smoking, technocracy, THC, Tobacco Free Generation
Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Source
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24Feb 2024 by Post

Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air

Almas Heshmati, autofill, Culture & Ethics, data, econometricians, Economics, Elsevier, Excel, Gary Smith, imputation, Jönköping University, Journal of Clean Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Mike Tsionas, Netherlands, New Zealand, Physics, Earth & Space, Retraction Watch, science journals, statistical peculiarities, Søren Johansen, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom
While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. Source
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05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

"survival of the fittest", abductive inference, adaptation, blind drivers, CELS, Charles Darwin, Charles Kocher, Columbia University, Current Biology, Darwinian Evolution Machine, driver, driverless car, Engineering, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness ratcheting, fitness valleys, golfers, gravity, Herbert Spencer, ignition, Intelligent Design, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ken Dill, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, rollercoaster, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, Victoria University, water
What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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03Mar 2022 by Post

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

African grey parrot, Alex (parrot), apes, birds, chimpanzees, cockatoo, cutlery, Goffin’s cockatoo, golf, intelligence, Intelligent Design, invertebrates, knife, mammals, Neuroscience & Mind, New Caledonian crows, New Zealand, octopus, Smithsonian Magazine, spoon, token, University of Birmingham, utensils, vertebrates, walnut
These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Source
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26Oct 2021 by Post

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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06Nov 2020 by Post

Lennox: Atheists’ Best Objection to Theism?

Against the Tide, atheists, Christchurch earthquake, Christianity, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gunning for God, hope, John Lennox, morality, New Zealand, Resurrection, Richard Dawkins, theism, trailer, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
I think the hardest problem that any of us face is the problem of pain and suffering. I’ve written in great detail about that but I will say one or two things. Source
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