Category: Science

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amplification, bacterial cells, citrate, citT, Dave Farina, dctA, DNA, Educating Dave Farina (series), Escherichia coli, genes, Irreducible Complexity, long-term evolution experiment, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral mutations, Richard Lenski, rnk, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 18, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __featured3, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Behind and Beyond the Brain Symposium, brains, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, cognition, David Chalmers, emotions, filter model, hard problem of consciousness, Human Immortality (book), Integrated information theory, J. L. Saver, J. Rabin, materialism, mental awareness, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, paradoxical lucidity, Peter Kreeft, reality, receptors, reducing valve, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, sensations, senses, terminal lucidity, thoughts, universe, William James}

What if the Brain Is a Filter?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroquine, competence, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), Elysia chlorotica, endosymbiosis, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, gene deletion, genes, Google, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, malarial parasite, Michael Behe, motility, mutations, Nathan Lents, Paramecium tetraurelia, Petri dishes, photosynthetic algae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, scout mindset, soldier mindset, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, Vaucheria litorea, youtube}

Let’s Educate “Professor” Dave Farina on Evolution and Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Read More ›

Highlighting central rod-shaped bacterium floating under microscope, with flagellum and pili

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, children, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John West, Michael Behe, milestones, podcast, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution}

On a Special Anniversary, the Biochemical Challenge to Darwin Stands Strong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 17, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

By intelligent design, you might say, August 1996 was the same month that John West and Stephen Meyer founded the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __featured1, artificial cell, bioengineers, biomolecules, Casey Luskin, CNN, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, genetic material, intelligent design, living cells, machinery, Mary Shelley, media, metabolism, molecular machines, natural environment, New York Post, nutrients, pasta, proteins, replications, ribosomes, science reporters, scientists, self-replication, SpudCells}

Luskin on SpudCell in NY Post: It’s NOT Alive!

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution

2}

Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's horror novel came closer to creating life, based on misunderstandings of her own about “experiments of Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, __featured2, accelerationism, Arizona, Cambridge University, chemical composition, cosmological constant, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, expansion rate, fine-tuning, galaxies, gamma ray bursts, Kitt Peak, Lambda Cold Dark Matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, measurements, Michael Levi, Milky Way, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, optical fibers, position, standard model of cosmology, telescope, universe, velocity, ΛCDM}

New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

_{Eric Hedin
August 17, 2026

Astronomy, Cosmology, Fine-tuning

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Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behaviors, bioinformaticians, biology, biomedicine, biopolymers, Budapest, Carlo Alberto Cossano, cells, chemical engineer, chemical engineers, cultural anthropologists, Danube River, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, engineering, ERTEM, Germany, human origins, Hungarian, Hungarian Parliament Building, Hungary, information, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Italy, languages, molecular machines, Norway, origin of life, orphan genes, Poland, proteins, Research, Unexpected Genome, United Kingdom}

Postcard from Budapest: Intelligent Design Is Growing in Europe

_{Casey Luskin
August 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research. Read More ›

Neanderthal armed with lance, their part in Homo Sapiens Anthropology and Darwinian Theory.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __trending, Amazon, archeology, Ascent of Man, astrobiology, China, Darwinian evolution, Eurasia, evolutionary psychology, forebears, genomes, glaciers, Greece, Jonathan Cheng, Matthew Phelan, Neanderthals, rainforest, Ross Andersen, Sanxingdui, Stone Age, subhumans, The Atlantic, UC Berkeley, Wall Street Journal}

Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Read More ›

An open black box emitting a burst of glowing golden sparks and light, symbolizing mystery, magic, and surprise, perfect for a Black Friday shopping concept

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, bombshell, Center for Science and Culture, complexity, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, National Review, new york, New York Times, podcast, publishing, Simon and Schuster, The Free Press, Wall Street Journal}

Behe’s Bombshell, Thirty Years Later

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Back in the 1990s, scientists were just starting to discover that virtually all cellular processes were powered by molecular machines. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, __trending, abrupt change, Albert Einstein, anatomical gap, anatomy, ape-like creatures, biological beginning, biological history, biology, Casey Luskin, contradictionss, Ella Al-Shamahi, evidence, gradualism, Homo erectus, human evolution, human origins, Lucy, Matthew Haber, New Scientist, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, philosophers, rainbows, Science and Human Origins, Science Uprising, syllogism, universal common descent, University of Utah}

Study of Biological Origins Is Entering a Surreal State

_{Science & Culture
August 14, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

3}

No biological history and no biological beginning: are you seeing the trend? Both seem to be responses to being battered by the evidence. Read More ›