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
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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
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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
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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
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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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