Category: Historical Sciences | Page 25 | Science and Culture Today

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David Klinghoffer

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March 24, 2025

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, biology textbooks, Bremerton, Casey Luskin, celebration of life, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Donald Rumsfeld, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Haeckel’s embryos, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Josie Wells, Peter Wells, Plato, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, scientists, textbooks}

Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

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Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
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, abstract reasoning, Acheulean age, ancestors, bone tools, bones, elephants, hippos, hominins, human mind, knapping, Neanderthal man, paleontology, Renata F. Peters}

Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

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Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

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March 21, 2025

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2025

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, biological complexity, biology, chemistry, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, faith and science, history of science, intelligent design, life, origins, scientific theories, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theistic evolution, UC Berkeley, universe}

Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”

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March 21, 2025

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Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 19, 2025

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, anecdotes, articles, atheism, books, hubris, humility, humor, ID the Future, intellectual honesty, intelligent design, interviews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Wells, online course, podcast, Richard Sternberg, scientific truth, video}

Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

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March 19, 2025

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Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›

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Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATP hydrolysis, cell death, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromatin, chromosome condensation, chromosomes, clawed frog, condensins, cytokinesis, DNA, Inner Centromere Protein, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinase, mice, mislocalization, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic chromosome, mitotic progression, phosphorylation, proteins, RNA interference, Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes, teleology, topoisomerase, topoisomerase IIα, Xenopus}

Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

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March 19, 2025

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It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology textbooks, Center for Science and Culture, citations, classrooms, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, finches, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, peppered moths, podcast, remembrances, reputation}

Dismantling the Icons of Evolution

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March 17, 2025

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I invited Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Read More ›

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Author
Gregory Rummo

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Book of Job, Chemical and Engineering News, chemistry, codons, Douglas Axe, Gene Machine, Johannes Kepler, John Patrick, Joseph Hooker, Judeo-Christian tradition, malnutrition, mediator complex, mRNA, neckties, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, oracle soup, pasta, primordial soup, protein synthesis, proteins, reagents, RNA polymerase, Stephen Meyer, structural biology, tRNA, Venki Ramakrishnan}

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

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March 17, 2025

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When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cells, Center for Science and Culture, communication, critics, Discovery Institute, epigenetics, evolution, Galileo Galilei, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, life, Mount Everest, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Tom Woodward}

Intelligent Design’s “Galileo Figure”

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March 13, 2025

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Tom Woodward calls Jonathan Wells a “Galileo figure” in intelligent design’s connection with epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dariusz Sagan, En Arche Foundation, evolution, Evolution News, Geoffrey Simmons, Grzegorz Malec, Grzegorz Słowik, intelligent design, International Seminar on Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Mind & Cosmos, Muslims, Polish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, The Design Inference, Thomas Nagel, translation, United States, University of Zielona Góra, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, YouTubers}

Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish: “A Game Changer”

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March 11, 2025

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Among our partners around the world, one of the finest, doing some of the most impressive work, is the En Arche Foundation in Poland. Read More ›