John G. West

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An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 18, 2022}

According to Lewis, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things.

The Biggest Obstacle to Accepting Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 17, 2022}

Unfortunately, big media and big tech work overtime to suppress dissent in science.

The Debate over Design in the Early Church Eerily Current

_{John G. West
September 14, 2022}

In today’s ID the Future, scholar John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, reveals how current debates over whether nature displays evidence of intelligent design echo debates in the first centuries of the Christian church. The early Christians debated the Greco-Roman materialists but also the religious Gnostics of their day; and the ideas the early Christians confronted then confront Christians and other theists still today. Moreover, in some cases, those ideas are being peddled not by outsiders to the faith but by prominent Christians. West’s talk was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the greater Philadelphia area, an event jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture …

In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

_{John G. West
June 24, 2022}

Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked.

When Medical Science Becomes Heartless: The Case of Joshua Smith

_{John G. West
May 18, 2022}

This might be a good time to take stock of those you rely on for your medical care. How much do you know about your doctors?

Tired of the Media Promoting Atheism in the Name of Science?

_{John G. West
May 17, 2022}

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How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

_{John G. West
May 16, 2022}

Over the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

_{John G. West
March 25, 2022}

On this classic ID the Future, John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, explains the Darwinian basis for getting rid of the “unfit.” One way this manifested itself in the twentieth century was in the eugenics movement’s disturbing push for compulsory sterilization, right here in the United States. One of the most famous such instances was Carrie Buck (to the left in the picture accompanying this episode), sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Her case went to the Supreme Court, where the court, in an opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ruled against Buck. She was sterilized five months later. Listen in to learn about prominent scientists who supported these efforts, and the …

Do Non-Scientists Have Freedom to Question Darwinism?

_{John G. West
March 14, 2022}

College professors are not the only targets in academia who face discrimination because of their skepticism of Darwinism. Students can be even more vulnerable.

Do Scientists Have Freedom to Question Darwinism?

_{John G. West
March 11, 2022}

The list of scientists, teachers, students, and others who have faced discrimination for their public skepticism of Darwinism is long and growing.

Major Scandal: New York Times Reports CDC Withholding Massive Amounts of COVID-19 Data

_{John G. West
February 22, 2022}

To get the Washington State data, I’ve had to make repeated inquiries, and ultimately file a formal public documents request.

The Human Cost of Coercive Science

_{John G. West
February 21, 2022}

Lockdowns were imposed on society in the name of science, although the actual scientific basis of many of the measures employed was unclear at best.

In a Historic Moment, Many Religious Leaders Fail the Test of COVID-19

_{John G. West
February 18, 2022}

Both David French and Robert Jeffress seem certain that their fellow believers’ religious objections can’t be sincere.

The Terrible Bargain: Prophetic Words from C. S. Lewis on Scientocracy

_{John G. West
February 7, 2022}

If there is one thing I could get people to read to understand our situation, it would be the essay “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” by C. S. Lewis.

Censored by YouTube: Watch The Biology of the Second Reich Now

_{John G. West
February 4, 2022}

I’m not sure why my video was singled out. Perhaps it received too many complaints from outraged Darwinists, or even from racists.

The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition

_{John G. West
January 31, 2022}

Now, after two years, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 16, 2022}

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process.

How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

_{John G. West
January 11, 2022}

The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.”

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
December 28, 2021}

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy.

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

_{John G. West
December 17, 2021}

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science.