Month: January 2024 | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Carl Linnaeus

Date
January 24, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, adenine, building blocks, cytosine, DNA, Evolution News, guanine, living systems, magnetic field, nucleobases, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, ribose, RNA, sugar, thymine, uracil, UV light}

Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?

_{Carl Linnaeus
January 24, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In two previous articles, I have argued against the plausibility of generating biologically relevant polymers (proteins, RNA, and DNA) in a prebiotic world. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, emergent properties, evidence, evolution, functionality, intelligent design, mutations, predictions, radio, scientists, television}

An Allegory of Denial

_{Eric Hedin
January 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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On a distant world lived people in a society not unlike our own, except in one interesting way. Read More ›

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Author
Bijan Nemati

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, extra-solar planets, fitness, intelligent design, life, Mass, observation, planets, stars, theory}

Dallas Conference: Earth’s Outstanding Fitness for Life, and Its Implication for Intelligent Design

_{Bijan Nemati
January 23, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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We can now begin to ask, and in future years continue to reassess, whether the special conditions the Earth satisfies are ubiquitous or unique. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complexity, Darwin's Black Box, egg cell, evolutionary theory, forethought, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, podcast, sexual reproduction}

Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 22, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiology, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, discovery, earth, habitability, intelligent design, Jay W. Richards, scientific discoveries}

Dallas Conference: Astrobiology Reveals Earth as a Rare Jewel

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
January 22, 2024

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

1}

We are learning that Earth’s rare qualities are important for its habitability. More, Earth offers us an exceptional platform for scientific discoveries. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, Dave Farina, evolution, evolutionists, Hamas, insults, intelligent design, Iran, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, pogrom, Professor Dave Explains, rape, Richard Dawkins, Why Evolution Is True, YouTube videos}

Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
History of Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, atheism, Bernard Acworth, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, evolution, faith and science, fantasy, four-bar linkage, Francis Collins, hubris, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, Lehigh University, London, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stuart Burgess, theistic evolutionists, William Shakespeare}

In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility

_{Jonathan Witt
January 22, 2024

Engineering, Faith & Science, History of Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cats, control, Current Biology, Dogs, humans, people, pets, prey}

Can Science Tell if Our Cats Love Us?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

A cat is not a pack animal; he is adapted to a solitary life. Usually, he likes us but he doesn’t need us emotionally in the same way as a dog. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, egg, evolutionary theory, foresight, forethought, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, sexual reproduction, sperm}

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›