Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2018

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Photo: An olive ridley sea turtle at the Long Beach Aquarium, Long Beach, CA.

Sea Turtles Swim Against the Darwin Current

Was there ever a more incongruous animal to imagine being a swimming champion? Read More ›
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Photo credit: dmusicat, via Pixabay.

The Dinosaur “Explosion”

"First there were no dinosaur tracks, and then there were many," says the lead author of a new study out this week. Read More ›
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Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?

Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Josh Staiger (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Andreas Wagner: Genetic Regulation Drives Evolutionary Change

In a seemingly infinite hall of mirrors, monumental assertions are casually made and immediately followed by citations that simply do the same thing. Read More ›
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Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Studying Homo naledi Fossils, Paleoanthropologists Apply ID Principles

This fascinating study also counters arguments that Homo naledi was beginning to develop a human-like intellect. Read More ›
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Photo credit: UFXie, via Flickr (cropped image).

Cognitive Conditioning and the Distortion of Reality

After following the discussion about evolution versus design for the past few decades, I have noticed a common trend. Read More ›
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Photo: A bombardier beetle, by Patrick Coin [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.

Pre-Adaptation: In Evolutionary Explanations, Too Much Serendipity

"The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be lying around. That’s often how evolution works." Read More ›
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Photo: Human person rescues cat person stuck in tree person, by Uschi_Du, via Pixabay.

No, Trees Are Not People Too

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›
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Photo: William F. Buckley, Firing Line, via YouTube.

Jonah Goldberg, William F. Buckley Jr., and Evolution

Conceding deep philosophical and scientific premises is one common reason that conservatives lose important arguments. Read More ›
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Image credit: TheDigitalArtist, via Pixabay.

Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers

Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both. Read More ›

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