In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, Human Origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, scientific reasoning, Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan
Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Source
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Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

"survival of the fittest", cattle, coyote, Evolution, existential problems, fairy tale, food, human life, human mind, Imperfection (book), irrationality, logic, luck, materialism, Nautilus, pop psychology, rationality, reproduction, scientific reasoning, Serendipity (book), Telmo Pievani, Templeton Foundation, threats, __featured3
This sort of cross between a fairy tale and pop psychology helps pop science readers pass the time while listening to the latest announcement of a flight delay. Source
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Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Faith & Science, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, Reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology
That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Source
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Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

Andrew McDiarmid, biologists, Brian Miller, Carl Jung, coincidence, Denyse O'Leary, development, Faith & Science, Greek philosophy, ID The Future, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, Michael Levin, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, publishers, Raphael, scientific reasoning, synchronicity, Synchronicity (book), Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus
This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Source
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Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

Children, College Physics, common science, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, Evolution, fundamental forces, humans, Intelligent Design, James Tour, materialistic science, Mathematical Intelligencer, mathematicians, Michael Kent, natural phenomena, Peter Urone, physics, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific evidence, scientific reasoning, Smart Phones, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent
The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Source
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How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

Alzheimer’s disease, amino acid, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Life Sciences, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientific reasoning, scientists, variation
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Source
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Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

Cornelius Hunter, COVID-19, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin-skeptics, debate, Evolution, Evolution News, faith, falsehoods, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, lies, lying, masks, Michael Behe, Plato's Revenge, propaganda, Richard Sternberg, Rutgers University, science, scientific reasoning, self-preservation, soldiers, tribal affiliation, tribalism, tribe, Warfare Myth
What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Source
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The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome 

algorithm, algorithmic information, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, deformations, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, Evolution, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, Intelligent Design, lipids, mathematics, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, preformationist, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, scientific reasoning, simulation software package, trans-computational, zygote
While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Source
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Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, scientific reasoning, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Source
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