Category: Historical Sciences | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, cultural timing, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Europe, evolution, False Messiah, ID the Future, interviews, life, mythology, Neil Thomas, philosophical appeal, scientific demonstration, scientific materialism, storytelling, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Myth and Legend in Darwin’s Famous Origins Story

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Neil Thomas makes a case that the rise of Darwin’s theory owes much to cultural timing, philosophical appeal, and persuasive storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 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
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 ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Austin, birds, Chicxulub impact, coccolithophore, darkness, Darwinism, dinosaurs, ecosystems, evolution, fauna, fisheries, Geology (journal), geophysics, global catastrophe, global winter, helium-3, humans, innovations, intelligent agent, intelligent design, K-T extinction event, mammals, naturalism, plankton, researchers, Science and Culture Today, Science Daily, spines, sudden appearance, University of Texas}

After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

_{Eric Hedin
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, Come Let Us Reason Together, deception, error, evolutionary narrative, evolutionary scientists, fossil, fossil record, human ancestors, human origins, Lenny Esposito, media, paleoanthropology, researcher-to-specimen imbalance, researchers, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Luskin on Error Versus Deception in Human Origins Discussions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 25, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Science Reporting

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How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and the realm of science is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, German, grass, Günter Bechly, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast}

Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

_{Granville Sewell
March 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, bias, Casey Luskin, competition, dissent, evolutionary narratives, evolutionary scientists, femur, fossil record, fossils, funding, graduate students, human ancestors, human origins, ID the Future, language, Lenny Esposito, paleoanthropology, paleontology, political pressure, Politics, prestige, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Supposed Human Ancestor Falls Victim to Research Politics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 24, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Casey Luskin describes a culture of silence in paleoanthropology driven by competition, prestige, and political pressure. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abortion, atheists, Aztecs, Baal, biologists, boyfriend, Center for Science and Culture, deception, epiphany, feminists, Gone with the Wind, habitual knowledge, intelligent design, irrationality, J. Budziszewski, knowledge, libido, lightness, lunacy, materialists, motivated irrationality, Pandemic of Lunacy, particles, purity, rational minds, rationalizations, reconciliatory urge, Richard Lewontin, Romans, Scarlett O'Hara, scientific knowledge, sexual drive, Sigmund Freud, truth}

Motivated Irrationality: Why Even Smart People Swallow Crackpot Ideas

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 23, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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A critic will just fling out an objection, intelligent design thinkers will reply, and the reply is totally ignored. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, americans, apes, apotheosis, Carl Becker, Charles Darwin, Charles Merriam, Columbia University, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, education, endowed by our creator, environment, evolutionary racism, Founders, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, government, gravitation, Great Society, humanity, income, John Burgess, limited government, medical care, natural law, nature, Nature and Nature’s God, New Deal, New Jersey, New York City, Princeton University, progressives, Teutonic race, U.S. Constitution, United States, University of Chicago, Woodrow Wilson}

The Denial of Limited Government in the Name of Science

_{John G. West
March 23, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Charles Darwin was honored for showing that the truths preached by the political philosophers had been substantiated by biological science. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, biochemical pathways, confidence, Eric Anderson, evolutionary process, explanatory power, generations, genes, homology, ID the Future, laboratory studies, mechanisms, medical engineers, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, organisms, podcast, Rob Stadler, survival, textbooks, two-mutation gap}

Rob Stadler on the “Low Confidence” Science of Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 20, 2026

Biology, Evolution

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Across experiments involving bacteria and yeast, researchers found that while evolution can occasionally fix a single point mutation. Read More ›