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15Jan 2023 by Post

Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design

Arthur Balfour, Culture, electrons, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, intelligent purpose, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, materialism, necessity, philosophy, protons, science, Strength to Love, The Man Who Was a Fool

The era of great men and great women, with majestic and original visions, seems to be in the past. I struggle to think of a giant alive today. Can you? Source

14Jan 2023 by Post

Wesley Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

atheists, biology, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, Intelligent Design, Medicine, physicians, Podcast, Richard Dawkins, science, Steve Laufmann, Wesley Smith, Your Design Body

Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Source

13Jan 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

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Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Source

12Jan 2023 by Post

Is the End of Science Near?

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A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings. Source

11Jan 2023 by Post

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

Americas, archeology, Brazil, capuchin monkeys, charcoal, hominins, Human Origins, humans, Ice Age, Kenya, lunar calendar, Michael Haslam, monkeys, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, paintings, Pedra Furada, Piauí, science, Serra da Capivara National Park, Tomos Proffitt, tools

The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Source

10Jan 2023 by Post

Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness

Ben Bacon, birth cycle, cave paintings, consciousness, Durham University, Europe, Evolution, Human Origins, humans, hunter-gatherers, Ice Age, Live Science, Melanie Chang, Neanderthals, paleontology, Paul Pettitt, Portland State University, reproductive cycles, science, University College London

London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology. Source

09Jan 2023 by Post

Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

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The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Source

07Jan 2023 by Post

Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Big Tech, Center for Disease Control, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, factionalism, free speech, heterodoxy, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdown, Medicine, National Bureau of Economics Research, pandemic, Podcast, Politics, public health, science, Stanford University, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization

Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Source

06Jan 2023 by Post

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

American Philosophical Quarterly, animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, Culture & Ethics, defendants, Ed Simon, free will, human exceptionalism, humans, moral agency, moral capacity, morality, Neuroscience & Mind, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, Raegan Scharfetter, responsibility, science

While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Source

05Jan 2023 by Post

Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion

Angstrom, arachnids, beetle, compression waves, Darwinian theory, Fundamentals of Physics, hydrogen atom, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, minimal-complexity problem, Mojave Desert, Oregon State University, Philip H. Brownell, Physics, Earth & Space, pincers, propagation speed, Rayleigh waves, sand scorpion, science, scorpion, sensors

The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey. Source

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