Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Alpha School, AP Calculus, artificial inteligence, baseball, Ben Carson, books, ChatGPT, chess, Conservation of Information, Deep Blue, Defying Low Expectations, education, Garfield High School, Garry Kasparov, Jaime Escalante, Joe Liemandt, learning, learning management system, literacy, LLMs, Oura Ring, parents, reading, Roland Fryer, StudiaNova.org, teachers, technology, transhumanism, Victoria Garmy, Wall Street Journal, Zoom}

Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

_{William A. Dembski
October 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, black holes, driving, earth, escape velocity, expansion rate, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, Geraint F. Lewis, GPS systems, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Isaac Newton, life, Luke A. Barnes, matter, Moon, nuclear forces, particles, planets, universe}

The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

_{Eric Hedin
October 31, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physics, Planetology

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One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, authoritarianism, business entities, criminal sanctions, duties, enforcers, fines, governments, House of Lords, human thriving, individuals, landscapes, legal person, Nature, nature rights, Nature Rights Tribunal, offenders, organisms, violators}

The Rise of “Green” Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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This is the most draconian and potentially tyrannical “nature rights” proposal I have yet seen. Read More ›

Charles Darwin observing wildlife in the Galápagos Islands, surrounded by lush flora and fauna, including giant tortoises, birds, and exotic plants, symbolizing evolution

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, Enlightenment, evolution, False Messiah, intellectuals, modern science, natural selection, nature, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, Reductionism, Samuel Wilberforce, scientific discoveries, skepticism, survival of the fittest, Taking Leave of Darwin, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

He Taught Darwinism for Decades (Then Changed His Mind)

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

English Romantic poet William Wordsworth provided a philosophical barrier against reductionist views of life like those of Darwin. Read More ›

Illustration multiplication of cells in blue

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Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain cells, brains, cells, Christof Koch, Darwinism, information, kidney cells, kidneys, learning, memory, neuroscientists, Nikolay V. Kukushkin, panpsychism, philosophy of biology, skull, Tibi Puiu, TIME, ZME Science}

Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›

Charles Robert Darwin bust sculpture, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. Generative AI

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __featured3, anti-theism, atomism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, deification, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, False Messiah, ID the Future, Lucritianism, materialistic philosophy, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, scientific materialism, Sir Charles Lyell, uniformitarianism}

Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws and Historical Roots of Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on scientific grounds alone. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, __k-review, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

Surreal landscape with a split road and signpost arrows showing two different courses, left and right direction to choose. Road splits in distinct direction ways. Difficult decision, choice concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured1, Aristotelianism, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, communication theory, contraction, decisions, diminution, earth, etymology, evolution, formal causation, Greek, Indo-European, information, intellect, intelligence, intelligence metrics, intelligent design, Latin, logos, marriage, natural selection, New Testament, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, select, selection, Texas, United States}

Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›

Intricate details of an antique pocket watch mechanism showcasing gears and springs in close-up

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bias, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, encyclopedias, facts, fine-tuning, Grok, Grokipedia, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, intelligent design, Jarvis, Larry Sanger, Nine Theses, philosophy of science, pseudoscience, Reece Rogers, think tank, United States, Wikipedia, William Dembski, Wired}

On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Read More ›