Month: February 2024 | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostics, biologists, cosmologists, creationists, Darwin’s Bluff, evidence, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, hagiography, linguists, Luther College, nature, religion, Robert Shedinger, scientific evidence, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antenna, compound eyes, development, entomology, evolution, eyes, Flight, fruit flies, gene expression, human mind, insects, intelligent design, lift, motor neurons, Nature Communications, Queen Mary University London, senses, thrust, wings}

Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems

_{David Coppedge
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmological constant, cosmologists, dark energy, Energy, evolutionary science, gravity, intelligent design, matter, physicists, Rob Sheldon, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, universe}

Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2024

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If you are not an ideological materialist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning. Read More ›

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Date
February 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, intelligence, pheromones, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, wasps}

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

_{Science and Culture
February 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, BioEssays, blueprint, Brian Miller, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), computers, Denis Noble, Dennis Venema, diseases, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolution, factory, genes, genomes, How Life Works, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, junk DNA, machines, Nature (journal), organisms, paradigm shift, Philip Ball, proteins, purpose, RNA genes, traits, transformers}

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, Avalon explosion, Cambrian phyla, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, evidence for evolution, fact check, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), India, junk science, microbial mats, Precambrian, radiometric dating, Spriggina, Tribrachidium, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
February 16, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, apoptosis, Charles Darwin, circulation, Current Biology, digestion, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, feedback control, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, jointed appendages, natural selection, neurons, Nobel Prize, odors, PLOS Biology, saccades, Stephen Crane, timing}

Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

_{David Coppedge
February 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Paul D. MacLean, triune brain theory, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, analogy, bacterial flagellum, complexity, Design Inference, evolution, evolutionary theory, gambling, initial conditions, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, jackpot, laws of nature, living systems, molecular machines, natural processes, natural selection, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, serendipity, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, universe, University of Helsinki}

Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many in the intelligent design camp have considered the possibility that the evolutionary process was designed. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›