Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2021

Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›
Jeremy England
Image: Jeremy England lectures in Stockholm, via YouTube.

Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics, and Jeremy England

While England’s laboratory work is fascinating, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life Read More ›
Macaca fascicularis
Photo: Macaca fascicularis, by kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
Edgar Allan Poe
Photo: Edgar Allan Poe, by an unknown photographer; restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Edgar Allan Poe — Scientist

In order to think scientifically, you must have an advanced degree in science. Right? Read More ›
Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Image: Baron Georges Cuvier, by François-André Vincent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Dr. Meyer's Facebook page.

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating

Do the laws of cosmology, physics, and biology exhibit dispositive evidence of a cosmic designer? Read More ›
Douglas-Axe
Photo: Douglas Axe at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Douglas Axe: Stupid Design? Or Elegant Invention?

You can watch Axe taking on arguments for “stupid design,” as offered by well known atheists like Neil deGrasse Tyson or lesser lights such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›
Statue of Philosophy
naturalism
Photo: Statue of Philosophy, Reading Room, Library of Congress, by Carol M. Highsmith, via Flickr.

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›
brain
Photo credit: David Matos via Unsplash.

Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›

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