Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, death, engineer, engineering, handiwork, Howard Glicksman, intelligent causes, life, material causes, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body, Your Designed Body, zygote}

Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Can purely material causes account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated, and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adenine, Ann Gauger, California, Cambridge, cytosine, Dartmouth College, Darwinists, DNA, England, evolution, Evolution News and Science Today, genes, Genesis, genetic similarity, Gold Rush, guanine, Hebrews, ID the Future, intelligent design, Melchizedek, mutations, non-coding DNA, ORFanID, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, proteins, relatedness, salvo, Stephen Meyer, taxonomically restricted genes, thymine, War and Peace}

Darwin’s Orphan Foe: A Gene Army Comes for Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
October 17, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionary theory led evolutionists to expect these genes to be rare. As it turns out, they aren’t. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 17, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, conservation of energy, conservation of mass-energy, contingency, cosmologists, cosmology, inflaton field, kinetic energy, Lawrence Krauss, philosophy, physical laws, physics, potential energy, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Proof of God in 3 Minutes, quantum fields, quantum vacuum, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe, Victor Stenger}

Dealing with Further Objections to “Proof of God in 3 Minutes”

_{Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, and Brian Miller
October 17, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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A transcendent, supernatural first cause is necessary to explain why our universe and all of its matter and energy exist. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __featured3, atheists, Christopher Hitchens, clownfish, Daniel Dennett, Europeans, God the Science the Evidence, Greeks, intellectuals, irrational forces, Jerry Coyne, mathematics, New Zealand, Pythagorean Theorem, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, transgender, war on math, Western world, whiteness, Why Evolution Is True}

On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Went Out the Window

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 16, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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All of this decay when atheists were considered to be the primary spokespeople for science. And they have yielded the floor to irrational forces. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __featured2, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, biochemistry, biochemists, Biola University, biomolecules, biosphere, cancer, curcumin, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, diseases, drugs, flavonoids, humans, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, leaf extract, lutein, lycopene, Magnolia alba, medicine, Michael Behe, nanoparticles, photocatalytic, polyphenols, red grapefruit, Research, Richard Gunasekera, Scientific Reports, side effects, tomato, Tree of Life}

Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
October 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›

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Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __featured1, A Universe from Nothing, atheism, black hole, cosmic microwave background radiation, creator, electromagnetic energy, empirical observation, Energy, fine-tuning, First Cause, first law of thermodynamics, gamma ray photons, Hawking radiation, Higgs Boson, Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy, Lawrence Krauss, mass-energy, matter, natural law, nothingness, physicists, physics, quantum fields, supernatural, universe, WMAP}

New Video: “Proof of God in 3 Minutes” — Really? Here Are the Details

_{Science and Culture
October 16, 2025

Faith & Science, Physics

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We will demonstrate that the video is accurate, well supported, and there is truly no serious argument against its conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, bias, Christianity, cognitive diversity, creativity, Darwinian mechanism, evolutionary biologists, faith and science, geneticists, Graeme Johnstone, ID the Future, Isaac Newton, Jack Timpany, Johannes Kepler, materialists, plants, podcast, religion, Richard Buggs, rigor, Robert Boyle, science, science stopper, scientific process, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, Table Talk (podcast), warfare myth}

In Science, Faith Can Improve Rigor and Creativity

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 16, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Scientific Reasoning

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Contrary to the prevailing view, plant geneticist Richard Buggs says his Christian faith motivates his research. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 15, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Scientific Reasoning
Technology
Tagged
, alien civilizations, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Hayabusa2, Jacob Haqq Misra, John Gertz, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Matt Williams, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Principle of Mediocrity, Ravi Kopparapu, Rolf Dobelli, Science Alert, Science Focus, SETI, solar system, technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet}

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 15, 2025

Planetology, Scientific Reasoning, Technology

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The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, moral tradition, Ontario, orthodoxy, patient choice, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, progressive politics, public health, public policy, The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, conciseness, concision, creator, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, Framework Leadership, human exceptionalism, human life, image of God, John West, Kent Ingle, mass death, natural selection., podcast, purposelessness, religious sources, sculptor, toxicity}

From John West, a Concise Explanation of Evolution’s Toxicity

_{David Klinghoffer
October 13, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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At a dinner at my home, a guest launched into a lengthy explanation of why, as a religious person, neither he nor anyone should be bothered by “evolution.” Read More ›