Category: Intelligent Design | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 7, 2026

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Path from Rome, agnostics, anti-reductionism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Hugh Clough, atheists, biology, Brief Encounters, Christians, deconversion, Denis Noble, Edward Feser, evolutionary biology, Financial Times, form, function, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Lord Richard Harries, New Atheists, Oxford University, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religions, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, Sheldonian Theatre, Sir Anthony Kenny, The God Delusion, The Sun, theism}

Haunted by God: Remembering Sir Anthony Kenny

_{Bethel McGrew
August 7, 2026

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Kenny still appreciated a good church service and even did readings from the breviary. Unusually, he argued there was no reason why an agnostic shouldn't pray. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
August 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Charles Thaxton, children, Christian rock music, Christianity Today, Darwin on Trial, Darwin’s Black Box, evolution, grad students, grandchildren, intelligent design, James Shreeve, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Moody Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Phillip E. Johnson, professors, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Tampa Bay, Trinity College, University of South Florida}

Behe’s Breakthrough: Memories of Darwin’s Black Box

_{Thomas E. Woodward
August 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The cover artist was working on a bit of extra creativity, showing Behe playing poker with Charles Darwin, and holding the winning cards. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 6, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, biochemistry, C. H. Waddington, calculus, Christopher Hitchens, complexity, Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Black Box, E. O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Joseph Woodger, M.-P. Schützenberger, mechanism, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Ruse, Neo-Darwinism, Nicolas Rashevsky, Richard Dawkins, Robert Rosen, scientific materialism, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UT MD Anderson}

Restoring Our Vision: Michael Behe and Darwin’s Black Box

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 6, 2026

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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What has always stirred me with a deep set of conflicting emotions is his reference to the “elephant in the room.” Read More ›

Bacterial Flagellar Motor Proton-Driven Rotary Nanomachine

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Author
George Montañez

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Big Bangs, biology, bioRxiv, Casey Luskin, computational biologists, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinian processes, dough, evolutionary change, genes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Last Bacterial Common Ancestor, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Behe, Nature Reviews Microbiology, type III secretion system, Wikipedia, William Dembski, yeast}

Mighty and Meek: Behe’s Great Work at Age 30

_{George Montañez
August 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The sheer amount of research that has gone into trying to find alternative explanations to what Behe has proposed is mind-boggling. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Armand Assante, Athena, blessings, Brad East, Cambridge Elements, Christopher Nolan, Contemporary Pagan Philosophy, disenchantment, Eric Steinhart, faith, Federation of American Scientists, intelligent design, Interstellar, knowledge, mad scientist, magicians, Marvel Cinematic Universe, methodological naturalism, Möbius strip, natural disasters, naturalism, philosophers, polytheism, Richard Dawkins, scientists, teacher’s pet, The Odyssey, The Prestige, theism, theistic evolutionists, wizards, Yiyang Zhuge, Zeus}

Christopher Nolan’s Disenchanted Odyssey

_{Bethel McGrew
August 5, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Blu-ray, churches, cosmos, DVD, Fandango, ID the Future, intelligent design, Internet, resources, Return of the God Hypothesis, schools, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Meyer, streaming, The Story of Everything, theaters, youtube}

All the Ways to See The Story of Everything

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The options have grown to the point that it’s hard to imagine there’s anyone with Internet access who can’t find it. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, air conditioning, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, endowed by our creator, gifts, Ingram, John West, Lightning Source, paperbacks, Plato’s Revenge, reading, smoke, Stuart Burgess, summer, Ultimate Engineering, vacation, Washington State, wholesalers, wildfires}

Intelligent Design’s Summer Reading Sale — 40 Percent Discount While It Lasts!

_{Science & Culture
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You’re heading to that beach vacation. Or maybe like us in Washington State, you’re sneezing and coughing from the sunbaked wildfire smoke. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Caenorhabditis elegans, Chlamydomonasuse, cilium, Darwin's Black Box, electron micrograph, evolution, flagellum, Gaia Pigino, intelligent design, intraflagellar transport, Irreducible Complexity, Kirsty Wan, Ludek Stepanek, Michael Behe, microalgae, mousetrap, organelles, oscillators, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pronk, Science (journal), springbok, University of Cambridge}

Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads — Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These organelles, protruding from the cell into the environment, could not be built by a Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Murray, antibodies, ATP synthase, bacteria, bacterial flagellar motor, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Biophysical Journal, blood clotting cascade, cells, chemotaxis, cilium, Current Biology, Dan Tawfik, Darwin’s Black Box, David Snoke, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, eukaryotic cell division, evolutionary pathways, Harvard University, homology, injectisome, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macrobiological features, Michael Behe, molecular machinery, molecular machines, motility, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Heredity, Nicholas Matzke, Oxford University Press, PNAS, polar bears, protein science, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biology, Ribosome, Science (journal), T3SS, The Edge of Evolution, type three secretory system, universal common ancestor, vision, William Dembski}

Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Macrobiological features have been cited as irreducibly complex, including animal joints and the trap mechanisms of carnivorous plants, even the cell itself. Read More ›

Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, bacterial flagellar motor, biochemistry, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Black Box, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gilder, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, National Review, nature, New York Times, Paul Nelson, quantum theory, Revolutionary Behe, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, Watson and Crick}

Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
August 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›