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2022

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Eric Hedin
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July 27, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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At Live Science: How many people can Earth support?

Caspian
July 27, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: "Right now the scientific consensus is that the population of the world will reach a peak some time later this century. The world population is projected to reach 10.4 billion people sometime in the 2080s and remain there until 2100." Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
Date
July 25, 2022
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Evolutionary biology
Intelligent Design
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At SciTech Daily: Extraterrestrial Life: Ancient Microbes May Help Us Find Alien Life Forms

Caspian
July 25, 2022
Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: “Early Earth is an alien environment compared to our world today. Understanding how organisms here have changed with time and in different environments is going to teach us crucial things about how to search for and recognize life elsewhere,” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 23, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Another, more nuanced, look at the Rosalind Franklin story

News
July 23, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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We’ve all heard the story, probably: That Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) should have shared the Nobel Prize for the double helix with Francis Crick (1916–2004) and James Watson. Science writer Nicholas Wade has gone into the story in considerable detail and finds to be much more complex. Read More ›
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July 23, 2022
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Academic Freedom
Defending our Civilization
Geo-strategic issues
governance
Logic and Reason
mind and brain
rhetoric

L&FP, 57: What is naturalism? Is it a viable — or even the only viable — worldview and approach to knowledge?

kairosfocus
July 23, 2022
Academic Freedom, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, governance, Logic and Reason, mind and brain, rhetoric
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What is naturalism? (And why do some speak in terms of evolutionary materialistic scientism?) While everything touched on by philosophy is of course open to disagreements and seemingly endless debate, we can find a good enough point of reference through AmHD: 3. Philosophy The system of thought holding that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and laws.4. Theology The doctrine that all religious truths are derived from nature and natural causes and not from revelation. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy suggests: The term “naturalism” has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self-proclaimed “naturalists” from that period included John Read More ›