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Intelligent Design and Human Exceptionalism
Does an understanding of humankind's unique dignity and worth depend on religious arguments and religious faith?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
In the Beginning: Male and Female
What most people do not know or appreciate is how the body decides whether to make male or female parts.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
For Physicians, "Studied Neutrality" on Assisted Suicide Is a Cop Out
For years -- decades, actually -- euthanasia forces have tried to take MD opposition off the table.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fellow Atheist Dismayed at A.C. Grayling's Debate Performance Versus Rabbi Rowe
It must come as a disappointment that the young rabbi and former tank driver with the Israel Defense Force got the better of the distinguished philosopher.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
For Bees, Static Electricity Is Information
New findings about electrical sensing in bumblebees hints at widespread signaling in the animal world using static charges.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
In an Evolutionary Transition from Sea to Land, the Real Challenge May Be "Drying Out"
Researchers at the University of New South Wales have published in the journal Evolution, documenting something we kind of already knew.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Rowe-Grayling Debate
Grayling's problem is not merely his frank incompetence in open debate (you can understand his penchant for censorship).
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
From Political Scientist Jeff Sadow, Here's Straight Talk on the Louisiana Science Education Act
It's rare for the media to offer a fair view of academic freedom legislation, in any state.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Climate change education bills in Congress
Senate Bill 3074, introduced in the U. S. Senate on June 16, 2016, would, if enacted, authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a climate change education program.
Categories: Pro-Science News
The Challenge of Adaptational Packages
To generate an adaptational package requires not piecemeal change but integrated, systematic change.
William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells
Categories: Anti-Science News
Past Alien Civilizations Thesis Takes Another Blow
Evolutionists are at pains to convince us that the steps needed to produce something like us from scratch on a lifeless planet are a snap.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
What Is Teaching Evolution All About?
Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel offer a seemingly humane and generous compromise on teaching evolution in public schools.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Ice-Cold Water on Past Alien Civilizations Thesis
What human beings are -- cosmic flotsam or creatures potentially in a designer's image -- is the background dilemma to all discussions of evolution.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Stephen Meyer on a "Special Relationship" at Risk
We spend a lot of time here criticizing the legacy of a 19th-century English gentleman scientist and the ideas of his latter-day followers.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Common Descent: An Obituary
Common Descent (CD) has been offered as a scientific theory and must therefore be judged as such.
Lee M. Spetner
Categories: Anti-Science News
Photography Contest VIII
Polish your lenses, dust off your tripods, search your archives (and, if you have entered before, remember that you are not limited to 3 good pictures per lifetime) – the eighth Panda’s Thumb photography contest, begins – now! Pierce extinction meter, still-camera version. They sold for $1.95 in 1946. We will accept entries from 12:00 CST, Monday, June 20, through 12:00 CST, Monday, July 4. We encourage pictures of just about anything of scientific interest....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Avida-ED Web, The Beta Release
Avida-ED is educational software that provides an accessible presentation layer on the Avida artificial life platform. The first version was released nine years ago, and today marks Prof. Rob Pennock’s release of version 3, with a formal presentation at Evolution 2016. Avida-ED is geared toward the needs of undergraduate and advanced high school curriculum use. The new version, Avida-ED Web 3.0, is a web application: it runs in your browser (Firefox or Chrome currently; Safari,...
Wesley R. Elsberry
http://www.antievolution.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
Your Mind into a Computer Would Not Be You
The transhumanist fantasy about becoming immortal through uploading your mind to a computer is nonsense -- even if such a thing could be done.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Carnivorous Plants, and Why 0 Really Is Not Equal to 1
There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1.
Granville Sewell
Categories: Anti-Science News
No Offense! "Bird Brain" Is a Compliment
Birds have brains as well equipped and organized as those of primates.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
