Month: May 2024 | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, bacteria, cofactors, copper, early Earth, Earth’s crust, enzymes, evolution, habitability, hemoglobin, intelligent design, iron ore, just-so stories, life, metals, microbes, minerals, photosynthesis}

Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

_{Eric Hedin
May 14, 2024

Biochemistry, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Friedmann, Big Bang, Catholic clergy, Discovery Institute Press, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, ID the Future, podcast, science and faith, scientists, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, truth}

Luminet: The Real Heroes of the Big Bang Revolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 13, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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The discovery that the universe had a beginning was one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the last century. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, dog, Dr. Dan, embryogenesis, embryonic stem cells, enzymes, evolution, function, genome, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, methylation, mouse, Nature (journal), non-coding RNAs, peer-reviewed literature, repetitive elements, Rutgers University, Science (journal), transposable elements}

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

_{Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, geophysics, helium, hydrogen, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, materialists, nitrogen, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, Wikipedia}

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

_{Casey Luskin
May 12, 2024

Astronomy, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Being as Communion, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, John West, matter, podcast, reality, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: Information Is the Heart of the Matter

_{Science & Culture
May 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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If information, not matter, is the basic stuff of reality, how would this change the way we look at the world? Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, film, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, Cambridge, England, faith and science, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, John Ray, natural theology, natural world, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer and Klavan: The Tradition of British Natural Theology

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As luck would have it, Dr. Meyer joined the conversation from a very special city. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, cells, civilization, earth, Earth’s crust, foresight, fossils, intelligent design, iron, Jupiter, mantle, metals, planets, Saturn, solar panels, stars, Stone Age, supernova, toxicity, wealth}

Metals: From Stars to Cells

_{Eric Hedin
May 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abduction, anomalies, artifacts, Avalon explosion, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, gradualism, great Ordovician biodiversification event, Lower Cambrian, molecular biology, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, photosynthesis, population genetics, predictions, random mutations, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, specified complexity, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth}

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›