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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

_{Eric Hedin
April 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Peter A. Corning, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, relational biology, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, boys, California, children, Colorado, courts, dead name, discrimination, female sports, feminists, gender, girls, hormones, ideology, law, Maine, men, parental custody, puberty blockers, Scotland, Supreme Court (UK), United Kingdom, United States, women}

From the UK, Good News for Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Here’s hoping that in the U.S., women and girls can again be secure in female-only spaces. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, blueprint, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chromosomes, cohesins, condensins, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrostatics, EMBO Journal, error catastrophe, genome, gravity, Hurricanes, lipidome, mitochondria, mitosis, mutations, physical laws, Plato's Revenge, proteome, replication accuracy, respirasome, respiration, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), Skinner’s Constant, tornadoes, University of Massachusetts}

A Cell Makes “Decisions” — But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?

_{David Coppedge
April 15, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Watching cells under a microscope, we sense familiarity with their challenges when they face puzzles. How is this possible if their nature is strictly physical? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Dan Stern Cardinale, geologists, interviews, Islam, junk DNA, life, Muslims, Rutgers University, stereotypes, Subboor Ahmad, YouTube channels, YouTube videos}

Casey Luskin: Intelligent Design, Islamic Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
March 1, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the focus is on the “junk DNA” argument against ID, but stay tuned for the amusing case of Dr. Dan Stern Cardinale and the feathered crocodile. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albuquerque, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, DNA, Energy, enzymes, evolution, fossil record, genes, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, junk DNA, life, matter, mutations, natural selection, non-coding DNA, overlapping codes, physical constants, proteins, space-time, spliceosome, universe, University of New Mexico, video}

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”

_{Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›