Month: January 2024 | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, anti-Semitism, Casey Luskin, college campuses, Dave Farina, evolutionists, free speech, Gaza, Hamas, intelligent design, Israel, Jews, Lee Cronin, Martin Luther King Jr., North America, October 7, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, Rice University, science education, Seattle, terrorism, Twitter, X (platform), YouTube videos}

Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

_{David Klinghoffer
January 11, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, debates, Discovery Institute, early Earth, enzymes, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, lipids, nucleotides, polynucleotides, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Professor Dave, Rice University, RNA, roundtable, specified information, University of Glasgow}

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Casey Luskin
January 11, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, DNA, Euclid, genius, Hamlet, intelligence, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, nature, protein machines, sciences, William Shakespeare}

Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 10, 2024

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, consciousness, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Ireland, James Tour, neurons, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Richard Dawkins}

Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biological systems, Biomimetics, Bristol University, chicken-and-egg problem, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dartmouth College, Denton, evolution, Evolution (journal), flexibility, heuristic, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Judeo-Christian tradition, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Marcos Eberlin, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, pelvis, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, Stephen Jay Gould, strength, Stuart Burgess, Texas, whales, Zombie Science (book)}

Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies — A Report from CELS

_{Jonathan Witt
January 10, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The cherished evolutionary story of whales' “vestigial” pelvic bones joins the growing pile of discredited icons of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, After Death, Alexander T. Englert, atheism, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, materialists, near-death experiences, relationships, Thomas Aquinas}

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Australia, chicken, chicken-and-egg problem, complexity, Cyanobacteria, DNA, egg, elementary particles, evolution, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, John von Neumann, Model T, natural processes, universe}

Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem — Explained

_{Eric Hedin
January 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The conclusion based on a mathematical analysis of self-replication is that asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, is getting way ahead of the game. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, common ancestor, common ancestry, convergence, convergent evolution, dolphins, evolution, evolutionary processes, fish, intelligent design, lineages, natural selection, paleontology, Paul Nelson, preconditions, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, sharks, solutions, swimming, systematics, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

_{Emily Reeves
January 9, 2024

Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, cosmos, Darwinism, elegance, evolution, faith, genius, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, mystery, podcast}

Nature Reveals Not Just Design but Genius

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 8, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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After studying the hallmarks of genius in humans, Witt and Wiker looked for the same characteristics in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Wiker, birth, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, children, Christmas Eve, evolution, faith, future, history, intelligent design, Kentucky, materialism, Napoleon, newborn, pregnancy, providence, United States}

Design in the Grand Human Story

_{Eric Hedin
January 8, 2024

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Two famous individuals who share the birthdate of February 12, 1809, are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Read More ›