Month: August 2023 | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Bruce Lipshutz, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, early Earth, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, peptides, prebiotic Earth, Rice University, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, water}

Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 23, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood-clotting cascade, Center for Science and Culture, circulatory system, coagulation, Darwin's Black Box, enzymes, evolution, fibrinogen, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Behe, platelets, prothrombin, Retraction Crisis, Russell F. Doolittle, thrombin, thrombosis, unguided processes}

The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, a commenter on the Center for Science and Culture’s Facebook page asked about a paper by the late biochemist Russell F. Doolittle. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, coordinated mutations, Dawkins Test, dependency graph model, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, fossils, glands, humans, inner ear, intelligent design, milk, modules, mutations, peer-reviewed literature, prestin, proteins, rescaled consistency index, species, whales, Winston Ewert}

From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ewert's model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, alt-right, anti-Semitism, axioms, Charles Murray, Compact, conservatism, crime, culture, Democrats, elections, eugenics, evolution, Evolution News, Holocaust, Human Zoos, John West, liberalism, neologisms, Nick Fuentes, policies, Politics, refrigerator, Republicans, Richard Hanania, Social Darwinists, Steve Sailer, United States}

“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Read More ›

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Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bones, cells, coding, data, DNA, evolution, evolutionary theory, femur, foresight, human body, humans, information storage, intelligent design, life, Michael Behe, organs, Secrets of the Cell, teeth, YouTube videos}

New on YouTube: Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information — And the Marvel of Bones

_{Science and Culture
August 22, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The question posed by considering evolutionary theory versus intelligent design is whether a marvel like the femur could have arisen by chance-driven processes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetics, birds, childhood, ears, emotions, evolutionary adaptation, hearing, lyrics, medicine, mental health, mind, music, planets, Plato, pulsars, soul, sound waves, speech, sun, UC Berkeley, YouTube videos}

The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?

_{Eric Hedin
August 22, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, capillaries, diffusion, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, just-so stories, liver, minerals, osmosis, Steve Laufmann, Your Design Body}

Dr. Glicksman: How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 21, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medicine

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In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Alfred Lord Tennyson, cars, Charles Sanders Peirce, consciousness, immaterial reality, John Dewey, John Horgan, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Matt Ridley, Nautilus, Philip Ball, science writers, Stanford University, The End of Science}

For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, clicks, Current Biology, echolocation, electric eels, evolution, exoplanets, grizzly bear, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Kepler mission, neurons, noise, odor, olfaction, signal, smell, snakes, testosterone, Washington University}

Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology

_{David Coppedge
August 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 20, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, genes, genetic code, information, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, meaning, natural selection, paradigm, private truth, public truth, teleology, University of Ferrara}

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 20, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Read More ›