Discovery Institute Evolution News & Views
Evolution News and Views (ENV) provides original reporting and analysis about the debate over intelligent design and evolution, including breaking news about scientific research, academic freedom cases, and educational policy issues. ENV also covers how the rest of the newsmedia report on the debate, offering analysis and corrections to major news stories, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how journalists and news outlets operate when they report on this issue.
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Medicine and Our "Perfect" Anatomy
What Diogo and Molnar seem to want is a metric with The Human Body as God Would (or Should) Have Made It at one end of the measuring stick.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Better Babies Through Evolution? Richard Weikart on the Siren Song of Transhumanism
The fact that all this is so far technological fantasy may be its lone saving grace.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Watson's Goof -- What We Should Really Fear from AI
It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant.
Brendan Dixon
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
On Prebiotic Chemistry, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Urges an Admission of Ignorance
Taking aim at biologists who assume the matter of life from nonlife is well in hand, Tour sets out this way.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Foundational Question: Is Biology Engineering?
Look at the photo at the top of this post, and ask yourself: What's the best-engineered object in view?
Steve Laufmann
Categories: Anti-Science News
Origin-of-Life Research: Start Over
Chemical evolution theories are so unsuccessful, it's time to go back to square one. So say two theorists in America's leading science journal.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
How the Body Controls Its Calcium
Without any one of the necessary systems being in place, the whole would fail and calcium control would be lost.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fetal Stem Cells -- Another Case Study in Media Hype
This is a warning about investor trawling, media hype, and the realities attendant to regenerative medicine.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy
Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Reversing Stroke Damage, a Stunning Success for "Anti-Science"?
Once again the damned-with-faint-praise field of adult stem cell research seems headed toward significant treatment breakthroughs.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back
Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths.
Jonathan Wells
http://www.discovery.org/p/41
Categories: Anti-Science News
Alfred Russel Wallace -- Intelligent Design's Lost Ancestor, Now Found
Michael Flannery casts Wallace as a "prophet," in the Greek sense, one who interprets the text of nature.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Even Elephants Recognize that Humans Are Exceptional
Apparently Ben, an injured elephant, knew something that a lot of humans deny or want to forget.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Time for Michael Behe's Book Anniversary, Here's a Real Mousetrap in the Cell
A molecular machine mimics the actions of an irreducibly complex device, the mousetrap.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Forming Strong Bones Is an Irreducibly Complex Process
Without Vitamin D, our earliest ancestors wouldn't have been able to absorb enough calcium to build up their bones and survive within the laws of nature.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
Killing Harambe -- An Intelligent Design Perspective
Sensitive people should not dismiss the intuitive response, mourning the destruction of a magnificent and rare monument to nature's design.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Shared Errors: An Open Letter to BioLogos on the Genetic Evidence, Cont.
Are not such harmful, shared mutations analogous to identical typos in the term papers handed in by different students?
Cornelius Hunter
Categories: Anti-Science News
Here's What Happens When You Eliminate Science's Spiritual Foundations
Warning signs of a coming irrationalism are hard to miss.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Foundational Question: Is Intelligent Design Science?
It's long been said that the path to the right answers lies in asking the right questions.
Steve Laufmann
Categories: Anti-Science News
