Year: 2025 | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

Horse and Zebra Intently Staring at Each Other on Black Background

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
December 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, animals, Ascaris megalocephala, bar code, Cenorhabditis elegans, chemistry, chimpanzees, chromosome number, chromosomes, Cruciferae, DNA, donkeys, Drosophila, evolution, ferns, fruit flies, genes, homunculus, humans, idiogram, junk DNA, Lego blocks, Ninth Symphony, nucleotides, Ophioglossum petiolatum, Parthenon, physics, plants, proteins, roundworm, Salvador Dalì, wheat, zebras}

The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
December 10, 2025

Evolution, Genetics

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Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipatory system, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, complex specified information, Darwinism, design detection, design intuition, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, engineering, human body, ID the Future, infants, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, nature, pattern, podcast, sequence, sexual reproduction, sperm cells}

Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There are also rigorous scientific methods to help us identify the hallmarks of design. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, cervical vertebrae, computer scientists, cranial elements, evolution, Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, Giraffidae, intermediate value, Jonathan Witt, Karl Friederich Meis, limb bones, mathematicians, mathematics, missing links, morphological differences, mosaic, neck length, okapi, Okapia johnstoni, Samotherium, Samotherium major, Science and Culture Today, taxon}

A Link Between the Okapi and the Giraffe? It Seems Not

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

2}

The question of how the giraffe’s extremely long neck originated remains entirely unresolved within an evolutionary framework. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle's Revenge, biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, Günter Bechly, immaterial agency, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, substances, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University}

Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, black market, China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, human tissues, kidney, living kidney donations, mortuary, murder, Ngor-Okpala, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners, Umuhu, Uyghur Muslims}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, biology, circuitry, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's tree, discontinuity, embryonic development, endowed by our creator, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary tree, function, generative entrenchment, monophyletic tree, natural selection, nature, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Chicago, William Wimsatt}

“Generative Entrenchment”: A Fundamental Problem for Darwin’s Tree

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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An “entity” may be so fundamental, so entrenched, arising so early in embryonic development, that it can't be toyed with by evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, bioethics, ethics, Harvard University, human exceptionalism, Humanize, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence, moral value, Oxford University, Phi Beta Kappa, Poland, President’s Council on Bioethics, responsibilities, Robert P. George, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, UNESCO, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology}

Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

2}

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Alexander von Middendorff, amphibians, bacteria, birds, complexity, cryptochromes, Efthimis Gkoudinakis, electric current, electromagnetic induction, electrons, electroreceptor circuit, fish, Flavin Adenoside Dinucleotide, flavoproteins, gyroscope, Iannis Kominis, insects, intelligent design, iron oxide magnetite, magnetic compass, magnetic field, magnetite, magnetoreception, mammals, microTesla, microwave oven, Monarch butterflies, navigation, P. J. Hore, radical, radical pair theory, radical pairs, refrigerator magnet, reptiles, Science (journal), trout, University of Crete, vertebrates, zoology}

Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

_{Eric Cassell
December 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Zoology

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It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 7, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, angry atheists, C. S. Lewis, human truths, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, material processes, podcasts, science, scientific materialism, scientism, The Magician’s Twin}

Thus Saith the Science: C. S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 7, 2025

Ethics, Faith & Science

3}

Progress is an appealing idea, but what happens when we do not all desire the same things? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, citizens, closed-mindedness, COVID-19, freedom, government, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, natural world, pandemic, physical science, podcast, privacy, public health, science, scientism, scientists, technocracy, The Magician’s Twin}

From C. S. Lewis, Prophetic Warnings on Science and Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? Read More ›