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25Jan 2024 by Post

Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?

astrology, aura reading, Christianity, Christians, Claudine Gay, Culture & Ethics, Davos, Faith & Science, feminists, Harvard University, Leslie McQuade, magic, mediumship, occult science, palmistry, plagiarism, private truth, public truth, Salem Witch Trials, spirituality, Switzerland, tarot-card reading, University of Exeter, Wall Street Journal, witch doctor, witchcraft, World Economic Conference

“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth. Source

17Dec 2023 by Post

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, CNN, DEI, Education, Fareed Zakaria, free speech, gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID The Future, intelligent causes, Jules Michelet, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, Monopoly, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, Podcast, professors, Race, red pill, scholars, silver lining, tenure, Testimony, Trivial Pursuit, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, Worldview

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Source

08Oct 2023 by Post

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

academic freedom, Allysia Finley, Anthony Fauci, Ashley Rindsberg, Breakthrough Institute, China, City Journal, climate science, COVID-19, Emily Kopp, First Amendment, free speech, gain-of-function research, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Medicine, Mind Matters, News Media, Patrick Brown, Paul Thacker, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan

Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Source

07Jun 2023 by Post

Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”

ABC News, archaeologists, Archaeology, Associated Press, Australia, bioRxiv, burial, cave art, chimpanzees, fire use, Germany, Gibraltar, Griffith University, hominids, Homo naledi, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, intelligence, Kenya, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, Maxime Aubert, Michael Petraglia, National Research Center on Human Evolution, Natural History Museum, Neanderthals, New York Times, Newsweek, paleontology, Phys.org, preprint papers, Rising Star Cave, Science News, Silvia Bello, skeletons, Spain, The Conversation, Wall Street Journal

Berger et al.’s claims about the species have been disputed and their idea that it lived 2-3 million years ago was exaggerated by a factor of 10. Source

21Apr 2023 by Post

In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions

actors, amoeba, blood, breath-holding, breathing, cellular respiration, chest cavity, cold-bloodedness, Complexity, connective tissue, crocodiles, Current Biology, Darwinism, engineers, Evolution, gastrointestinal system, glucose, glycolysis, heart, hematological system, hyperventilating, Intelligent Design, Kate Winslet, life, lungs, oxygen, physicians, pulmonary arteries, red blood cells, respiratory system, Science Daily, Steve Laufmann, Wall Street Journal, warm-bloodedness, Your Designed Body

Kate Winslet, and other actors, for the sake of “the newest frontier in blockbuster moviemaking” are learning to hold their breath for several minutes. Source

19Mar 2021 by Post

Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges

atheists, blacklisting, Christian colleges, Christianity, computational biology, creation science, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, Education, eugenics, evolutionary psychology, Joshua Swamidass, materialist neuroscience, multiverse theory, Nobel laureates, North Korea, Richard Feynman, SAT, scientific revolution, South Korea, Soviet Union, transgender pediatrics, United States, Wall Street Journal

The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy. Source

11Mar 2021 by Post

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

academic freedom, accrediting agency, atheists, Ball State University, BDS movement, Big Tech, Canceled Science, censorship, China, Christian colleges, computational biology, creation science, creationism, customers, East Coast, employers, equality, eric hedin, free speech, freedom, freedom from religion foundation, Giant Food, Intelligent Design, invidious labeling, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Joshua Swamidass, Justice, lockdown, othering, Punishment, Race, racial indoctrination, religion, reward, scientists, social credit, supermarkets, The Boundaries of Science, viewpoint, Wall Street Journal, Washington University

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Source

15Dec 2020 by Post

Meyer: For the Scientific God Hypothesis, Next Year Will Be Pivotal

Bronx, censorship, Center for Science & Culture, churches, Darwin’s Three Big Ideas that Impacted Humanity, essential businesses, Evolution News, faith, Faith & Science, ID 3.0 research project, ID The Future, John West, Long Story Short, Matthew Hennessey, media, providence, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Science Uprising, Secularism, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, synagogues, Wall Street Journal, worship

Conceding that churches and synagogues aren’t “essential businesses” was a devastating admission for many professional religious leaders to make. Source

02Sep 2020 by Post

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

academic freedom, American Revolution, arson, consensus, conservatives, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Douglas Axe, free speech, French Revolution, God and Man at Yale, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, John Adams, looting, Marxism, Oregon, Portland, Richard Sternberg, rioting, Roger Kimball, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The New Criterion, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Woodlief, University of Portland, Wall Street Journal, Wesley Smith, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall, Yale University

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Source

24Jan 2020 by Post

Science Says: Evolution Explains the Appeal of Baby Yoda

Alison Gopnik, anthropology, baby, Baby Yoda, cheeks, elephants, Evolution, giant squid, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Internet, Judith Burkart, newspaper, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, plumpness, puppies, Sarah Hrdy, storytelling, television, The Mandalorian, Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition has many more opinion and “think” pieces and other soft news than the weekday version. In the mix, they almost never fail to include an article praising evolution. This is so consistent that I wonder if it’s a deliberate editorial policy. Sure enough: in last Saturday’s paper, Alison Gopnik exclaims, “Humans Evolved to Love Baby Yoda.” Well, evolution explains everything, so why wouldn’t it explain why TV viewers are going gaga for the munchkin-like character in The Mandalorian series. Primed as you are by years of having read similar articles by science writers, no doubt you are getting ready for an exercise in evolutionary storytelling. There will be a clever reference to pop culture, a citation of an article from a science journal and…

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