Category: Intelligent Design | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, atheists, beetles, beginning, Bible, Big Bang, biochemistry, biological origins, biology, butterflies, Christians, creation, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian selection, evolution, fine-tuning, geneticists, Grand Canyon, humans, intelligent design, J. B. S. Haldane, Jews, molecular machines, natural selection, Noah, physics, protoplasm, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universes, University of Texas at Austin, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

In Fifty Years, How the Discussion About Science and Faith Has Changed

_{Granville Sewell
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Decades ago, as I can recall from personal experience, there seemed to be only two choices. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, auditorium, bibliography, cinema, earth, evil, films, galaxy, intelligent design, Jay Richards, life, lifelessness, Mars, movies, musical score, nature, photo permissions, Return of the God Hypothesis, reviews, Rotten Tomatoes, simulation theory, Star Wars, Stephen Meyer, stories, The Mandalorian and Grogu, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe, visuals}

A Surprise Conversation About, Well, Everything

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 29, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I walked out of the theater after the movie, I heard a familiar voice. I smiled as I realized it was our colleague Jay Richards. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, bedroom, birds, childhood, China, emperor, Hans Christian Andersen, investigators, mechanism, nightingale, origin of life, rain, Research, scientists, singing, synthetic cells, The Nightingale}

Synthetic Cells and Artificial Nightingales

_{Science & Culture
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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You probably remember the story from childhood. The emperor of China is enchanted by the singing of a real nightingale. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, DNA, DNA transcription, ENCODE project, evolution, functionality, genetics, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, junk RNA, Long Story Short, mammalian genome, mouse, native genome, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, noise, noncoding RNAs, proteins, Puffin-D, RNA, RNA sequences, sequence conservation, sequences, Thomas Cech, yeast}

Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

_{Casey Luskin
May 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, adhesion molecules, barcode, blood, brain, Cell (journal), cells, Charles Darwin, cytoskeletal components, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, design logic, digestive system, dorsoventral, embryonic development, extracellular matrix, fortified foods, genes, gradients, hearing, Irreducible Complexity, lecithin retinol acyltransferase, lymph vessels, mice, Michael Behe, nasal tissue, neurons, nose, nucleus, olfactory bulb, olfactory receptor, olfactory sensory neuron, receptors, retinoic acid, retinoic acid receptor, retinoid X receptor, retinyl esters, Science Daily, teratogen, vision, vitamin A}

Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

_{Howard Glicksman
May 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AuthorROI.com, authors, biology, books, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, earth sciences, editors, edits, faith and science, intelligent design, Intelligent Design and Evolution in a Nutshell, library, marketing, mathematics, money, publishers, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Seattle, self-publishing, Smith Tower, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Unsolicited Books, Vladmir Nabokov}

I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

_{Tova Levengood
May 27, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Aristotle, C. W. Howell, capitalism, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Designer Science, Edward Feser, faith and science, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Franciscan University of Steubenville, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James R. Hofmann, Jerry Coyne, Karl Marx, Logan Gage, metaphysics, Michael Behe, philosophers, poor design, purpose, Robert Koons, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, unintelligent entities, William Dembski}

Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

_{Brian Miller
May 27, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
May 26, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __trending, abiogenesis, assumptions, asteroids, bias, confidence, evidence, experiments, Gerald Joyce, investigator intervention, James Tour, Long Story Short, meteors, methodological naturalism, Miller-Urey experiment, murder, natural causes, natural processes, naturalism, origin of life, polymerase, repeatability, researchers, ribozyme, RNA, Science and Culture Today, scientists, self-replicating molecules, Sol Spiegelman, suicide, tabloids, water droplets}

Applying Scientific Method to the Origin of Life Yields Shaky Results

_{Rob Stadler
May 26, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Read More ›

Microscopic Bacterial Analysis - Bacteria in Greenish Liquid Illustration

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, biology, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, cosmology, documentary, geocentric model, John von Neumann, laboratory, lies, materialistic worldview, natural causes, naturalistic universe, origin of life, planetary orbits, puddle, reality, scientific knowledge, solar system, spontaneous generation, stagnant water, swamp, The Story of Everything, truth}

Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

_{Eric Hedin
May 25, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Read More ›