Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, hypoxia, intelligent design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA}

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

_{David Coppedge
April 1, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›

Business people clapping and applause at meeting or conference, close-up of hands. Group of unknown businessmen and women in modern white office. Success teamwork or corporate coaching concept

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured3, Brian Bird, cable TV, community, faith, family, grassroots, Hearties, hope, intelligent design, Parade, philosophy, producer, science, showrunner, storytelling, television, The Story of Everything, universe, viewers, When Calls the Heart}

Story of Everything Producer Has a Huge Fan Base

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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That’s a lot of people. I should have known. You can blame me for not having a television. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, __featured2, americans, Bible, creator, creed, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, Founders, generations, happiness, human beings, intelligent design, iterations, John West, liberty, life, natural theology, rights, slavery, social evolution, United States, vibe}

In the Year of the Declaration’s 250th, Condemning Slavery in the Name of a “Vibe”?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

2}

How urgent this book’s message is was brought home to me over the weekend in a conversation with a bright young man. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured1, A Mathematician’s View of Evolution, Albert Einstein, Albuquerque, best seller, Big Bang, David Berlinski, DNA, Energy, Eric Esau, Fathom Entertainment, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, general relativity, helium, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, James Tour, john lennox, living cell, materialism, matter, Michael Behe, Michael Kent, New York Times, Peter Thiel, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia Laboratories, scientific discoveries, Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe, space, stars, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe}

New Movie Reveals the “Hidden Hand Behind Our Universe”

_{Granville Sewell
March 30, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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A great deal of evidence indicates that the universe (space, time, matter, and energy) came into existence from nothing about 14 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, air traffic control networks, biology, Blue Angels, Cassini mission, civilization, Claudio Gomes, COVID, David Bartel, Deep Space Network, drones, email, ensembles, evolution, footer, header, highway systems, interoception, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, language, metadata, Michele Vendruscolo, MicroRNAs, military operations, murmuration, Nature Communications, networks, packets, perturbations, power grids, regulatory circuits, routers, sheet music, social networks, soloists, starlings, technology, trigger RNA, two-factor authentication, Whitehead Institute, Wi-Fi}

Network Technology: Biology Does It Better

_{David Coppedge
March 30, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Our modern world surrounds us with hi-tech networks, but biology has had them since the beginning of life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 28, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, antiboyism, antigirlism, authoritarianism, baby, bioethics, breasts, California, carefreeness, children, China, choice, coercion, discrimination, Ethics (journal), force, gestating, gestation, girls, medicine, mothering, peer-reviewed journals, philosophers, physical restraint, pregnancy, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, sedation, terminology, totalitarianism, transgender, University of British Columbia}

Ethics Journal Urges MANDATORY Abortion for Pregnant Minors

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

There is a word to describe “philosophy” like this: totalitarian. Indeed, it reminds me of China’s “one-child” policy. Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Tagged
, AlphaFold2 Multimer, binding, disorder, Drosophila melanogaster, interactome, intrinsic disorder, intrinsically disordered regions, Junhui Peng, Li Zhao, orphan genes, PLOS Computational Biology, protein-protein interactions, proteins, Rockefeller University, taxonomically restricted genes}

It Turns Out Disorder Is Functionally Important

_{Science & Culture
March 27, 2026

Biology, Genetics

1}

Li Zhao of Rockefeller University is a leading investigator on the origin and function of orphan and taxonomically restricted genes (TRGs) and proteins. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, church, compassion, contradictions, electrons, Elizabeth Urbanowicz, emotional intelligence, Energy, faith and science, general relativity, graduate students, light, Mass, quantum mechanics, Scripture, sensitivity, space, stars, students, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, tensions, undergraduates, understanding, Young Earth Creationism}

Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series)}

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

_{Bruce Gordon
March 27, 2026

Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics

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Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›