Month: September 2024 | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, Arachnida, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, eurypterids, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, creation, creator, entropy, fine structure constant, initial conditions, John Templeton Foundation, particle physics, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Yale University}

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024

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

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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, birds, body plans, common ancestry, computers, David Coppedge, design framework, Emily Reeves, evolution, forelimb, genes, homologies, intelligent design, Mac OS, mammals, programming, software engineers, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs, vertebrates}

Developmental Biology of Vertebrate Skeletons Shows Similarities are Better Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionists assume that the traits they classify as homologous share similarities due to their having evolved from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, atheistic naturalism, Big Book, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent designer, Luther College, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Richard Dawkins, Robert Shedinger, Samuel Wilberforce, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, cathedrals, Christmas carols, cultural Christianity, DNA, faith, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, mental health, physicists, Piers Morgan, psychiatry, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, theism, young people}

Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 4, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, bananas, berries, birds, Cretaceous Period, digestion, dinosaurs, fertilization, flowering plants, foresight, fruit, intelligent design, nutrition, optimization, pectin, phytochemicals, potassium, seeds, The Privileged Planet, tomatoes, vitamin C}

Fruit Is Designed for Life

_{Eric Hedin
September 4, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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This type of multi-purpose optimization speaks more of intelligent foresight and design than random adaptation. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 4, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, BIO-Complexity, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Biomimetics, birds, common ancestry, common design, coordinated mutations, Darwinian assumptions, energy conservation, evolution, evolutionary model, Flight, humans, intelligent design, presuppositions, Stuart Burgess, tetrapod limbs, vertebrate limbs, whale evolution, whales}

Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 4, 2024

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of whales. The flipper differs in almost every respect from that of its proposed terrestrial ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, cell membranes, cellular biology, cytoskeleton, death, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, gene regulatory networks, genes, heart rate, hospice, James Tour, laws of nature, Marcos Eberlin, molecular biology, multicellular organism, muscle cells, RNA, Santa Fe Institute, The Extracellular Space (series), water, Your Designed Body}

Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

_{Howard Glicksman
September 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biophysics, Copernican principle, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, Jay Richards, podcast, scientific advance, The Privileged Planet}

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, corporations, hacking, humans, information, Internet, MIT Technology Review, privacy, smartphones, social media, technologists}

You Thought the Internet Would Make Life Easier? Get Ready for Mandatory “Personhood Credentials”

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Governments have proven themselves quite incapable of keeping information private, as have the largest corporations. Read More ›