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In Conclusion: An Overview of the Body's Amazing, Irreducibly Complex Systems
Look at yourself in the mirror and wonder at an awesome mystery.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
Science, Scientism, and the "Intellectual Yet Idiot"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Black Swan fame, offers a wonderful and insightful tirade.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Excerpt: The Soul of the Matter, Chapter 3
Stephen Bishop would soon have the power to reshape the world -- for good. The universe's greatest secrets were within his reach.
Bruce Buff
Categories: Anti-Science News
If These Critics of Intelligent Design Are Right, Then Evolution Can't Be Tested
Doug Axe and his colleagues Ann Gauger and Mariclair Reeves tested evolution in the lab at the most fundamental possible level.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The War on Robert Atkins Goes On
PETA and other animal rights zealots went to war against Dr. Atkins because he promoted a low carb diet as a healthy way to lose weight.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Surprise Grows Over Importance of Previously Dismissed Portions of the Genome
The myth of junk DNA continues to disintegrate.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Eric Metaxas on "Evolution's Can Opener"
"There's an old story about a chemist, a physicist, and an economist stranded on a desert island with nothing to eat but a can of soup."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Psychologists Say "Awe" in the Face of Nature Is a Problem for Science
If we could take a pill that dulled the sense of wonder, would these professors recommend it?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Nature Rights" Goes to Court
Before you chortle, "It will never happen here," remember: It only takes one ideological judge who wants to make history.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Behe: Is That MEGA-Plate Antibiotic Resistance Video Evidence for Evolution, or Devolution?
Dr. Behe talked with Discovery Institute's Sarah Chaffee about a Science article and Harvard Medical School video in the news.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design Is the Backdrop for a Dan Brown-Style Thriller -- Bruce Buff's The Soul of the Matter
In a pretty effective and tense new novel, an MIT geneticist believes he has found evidence, codes within codes, for intelligent programming behind evolution.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Shenanigans in Texas
Members of the Texas state board of education launched a preemptive attack on a panel appointed to streamline the state science standards for biology during its September 14, 2016, meeting, according to the Texas Freedom Network's Kathy Miller, who criticized the attack in a September 16, 2016, letter to the board posted on the Texas Freedom Network's blog.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Congratulations to Bruce Alberts
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Bruce Alberts on receiving the 2016 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Central Command: The Brain's Role in Maintaining Balance
Using our brain to try to figure out how our brain works is a mystery.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria May Be a Health Nightmare, but Not an Evolutionary One
Jerry Coyne's blog, Why Evolution Is True, has this headline today: "The creationist's nightmare: evolution in action."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Animal Rights Means No Dogs or Cats
Most AR activists, like PETA's zealots, don't state the pet part boldly. The one exception to that general rule is Gary Francione.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design and the Computer Analogy
Imagine if computer science allowed researchers to consider the physical components of computers but not the "ideas" that drive them.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
William Dembski on the "Science vs. Science" Debate, the "Two Strands" in ID Research, and More
I doubt anyone was "holding his breath" waiting for the Berlin Wall to fall. Yet it did.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
