Month: October 2023 | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, COVID-19, Douglas Axe, genetic material, genomes, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mortality, mutations, pandemic, population, RNA, Stephen Meyer, viruses, Winston Ewert}

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, authority, carbon, climate change, fossil fuels, human thriving, ideology, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, traffic, trust}

As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Physical Sciences

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The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›

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Author
Angus Menuge

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Discovery Institute Press, dualism, experience, Higgs Boson, mental states, mind, Minding the Brain, Nobel Prize, observation, Richard Swinburne, thoughts}

Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science

_{Angus Menuge
October 2, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, biologists, cell membrane, cells, engineers, formalism, intelligent design, nucleus, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, Ribosome, Systems Biology}

Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

_{Emily Reeves
October 2, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›