Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2018

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Photo: Frances Arnold, Caltech, by Beavercheme [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›
Parker Solar Probe
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, via NASA. 

Parker Solar Probe Sweeps Past Venus, as Denton Renews Our Wonder About the Sun

Our relationship to this most familiar star is something that, as light-dependent aerobes, we often blithely take for granted. Read More ›
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Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave
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Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›
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Photo: A ground pangolin, native to Africa, by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Manis temminckii) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature’s Foresight: Pangolins, Giraffes, Porcupines, and More

Engineers designing a car have to plan for all kinds of conditions the car might encounter. Read More ›
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Image: Hemoglobin, Illustra Media, from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth.

Dazzling Acts in the Cell Circus

If life didn’t depend on these acts by cellular organelles and molecules, we would consider them death-defying performances in the greatest show on earth. Read More ›
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Image: Pioneer 10 plaque, designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake; artwork prepared by Linda Salzman, Sagan.Photograph, by NASA Ames Resarch Center (NASA-ARC) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Let There Be Light — New Book from Michael Denton Continues Privileged Species Series

This is intelligent design that sweeps the planet, covering not biology alone, but chemistry, geology, and physics. Read More ›
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Photo: Brian Wansink (at left), by U.S. Department of Agriculture, via Flickr (cropped).

Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal

Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as "a big book of Important Truths"? Read More ›
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Image credit: geralt, via Pixabay.

Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›
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Photo: Denis Lamoureux at TEDxEdmonton (screen shot), via YouTube.

Denis Lamoureux on the God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy

The universe is like a musical instrument that was designed to interact with its designer. Read More ›

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