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

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain, Bruce Greyson, cancel culture, death, dementia, dissertation, dying, Gary Habermas, medical interventions, Minding the Brain, near-death experiences, philosophers, Psychology Today, Research, terminal lucidity}

A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Al Gore, Alzheimer’s, assisted suicide, Charles Camosy, death, dementia, Democratic Party, media, Mississippi, parking lot, Politico, reporting, suicide, suicide clinic, Switzerland, Virginia}

Promoting a Suicide: Shame on Politico

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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Throughout the story, big-time political consultant Hal Malchow’s planned suicide is depicted as empowering. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biochemists, bioengineering, Casey Luskin, Denis Noble, Evolution News, evolutionary scientists, funding, genome, hydrothermal vents, ID the Future, ID theorists, Joana Xavier, Nature (journal), Nick Lane, organisms, Oxford University, primordial soup, promotion, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, tenure}

Two Articles in Nature Call for Rethink in Biology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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These frank acknowledgements from evolutionary scientists are encouraging signs and serve to confirm what ID theorists have long argued. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animations, ATP hydrolysis, bacteriophages, DNA, DNA polymerase, DNA polymerases, DNA replication, Drew Berry, E. coli, early Earth, evolution, helicase, hydrogen bonds, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, molecular machines, nanotechnology, naturalism, nucleotides, Oxford University Press, proteins, replisome, RNA, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, topoisomerase}

The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 21, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alcohol, Assembly Theory, challenge, Craig Venter, drinking, Harvard University, Hector Zenil, hype, James Tour, King’s College London, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Lee Cronin, LUCA, natural processes, negligence, Rice University, scientific community, tweeting, University of Glasgow}

James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory

_{Brian Miller
March 21, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, active transport, aquaporins, cell membrane, concentration gradient, death, disease, entropy, ion channels, life, Maxwell’s demon, natural forces, Nobel Prize, non-life, osmosis, PNAS, potassium channels, Roderick MacKinnon, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium channels, unnatural selection}

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

_{David Coppedge
March 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, donors, education, Europe, evolution, faith and science, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, professors, psychoanalysis, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, South America, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, theism, undergraduates, United Kingdom, United States, worldview}

Summer Seminars Create the Next Generation of Intelligent Design

_{Tova Forman
March 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Jacob Butschek, one of our 2023 international seminar students, shared his story with me. “Theism gets hammered by society and universities,” he says. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, contingency, death, Ernst Mayr, evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, hummingbirds, intelligent design, males, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, sexual dimorphism, Stephen Meyer, waste}

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, C.S. Lewis, Foresight (book), Gandalf, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, materialism, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, physicalism, Reductionism, star, sun, systems biologists, Systems Biology, The Lord of the Rings, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader}

Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design

_{Daniel Witt
March 18, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The word “reductionism” is thrown around a lot, but it can mean several different things. Read More ›