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Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Biden’s Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Die at 75

Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Joe Biden has announced the creation of a “Public Health Advisory Committee,” consisting of Democratic experts to advise him about how to best grapple with the coronavirus during the campaign. The bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — the most famous person on the committee — made headlines a few years ago by writing that he wants to die at age 75 before becoming "feeble, ineffectual". Joe Biden is 77. Read More ›
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3D illustration Virus DNA molecule, structure. Concept destroyed code human genome. Damage DNA molecule. Helix consisting particle, dots. DNA destruction due to gene mutation or experiment
Michael J. Behe
March 11, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Selected Journal Articles by Michael Behe

Michael J. Behe
March 11, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations Michael J. Behe Biological Information: New Perspectives, edited by R. J. Marks II, M. J. Behe, W. A. Dembski, and B. L. Gordon. World Scientific Publishing, Hong Kong, 450-473. Abstract: Over the course of evolution organisms have adapted to their environments by mutating to gain new functions or to Read More ›

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Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Plot Twist

Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. But new data are undermining this narrative. Read More ›
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Bill Walton
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Bill Walton and Steve Moore on the Trump Economy

Bill Walton
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Last week I interviewed economist Steve Moore at a conference with conservative leaders. While the capital markets sell-off and bad coronavirus news had not yet had hit galeforce levels, as it has this week, they were looming. I’m posting this to remind us that even in the face of fierce headwinds, the United States has entered this troubling time riding Read More ›

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Michael J. Behe
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

Michael J. Behe
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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With respect to the coronavirus epidemic and evolution, the bottom line is that, while of course the virus is dangerous, the situation can be compared to a strong storm on the ocean. The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. In a similar way, although superficially it changes very rapidly, some researchers think that the coronavirus and many other virus types have remained basically the same for tens of millions of years. Read More ›
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Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.
James Tour
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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We’re Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

James Tour
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Organisms have well-defined molecular assemblies, redox potentials across membranes, and metabolic pathways — all operating in exquisite states that we call “life.”  Chemistry, by contrast, is utterly indifferent to whether anything is alive or not. Without a biologically derived entity acting upon them, molecules have never been shown to “evolve” toward life. Never. While organisms exploit chemistry for their own Read More ›

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Michael J. Behe
March 4, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The Effects of Mutation

Michael J. Behe
March 4, 2020
Intelligent Design
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In this episode of Secrets of the Cell, biochemist and bestselling author Michael Behe explores the impact of mutations on evolution. Do random mutations and natural selection provide an explanation for the development of new organisms and features in the history of life? Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics
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Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty

Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics
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Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation and Seattle has effectively become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Read More ›