Category: Life Sciences | Page 143 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, Big Bang, computers, electrons, En Arche Foundation, encyclopedias, Energy, entropy, evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, libraries, matter, Michael Behe, novels, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, Stephen Meyer, universe, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design, Now in Polish

_{Granville Sewell
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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My book includes a chapter on quantum mechanics, called “The Supernatural Element in Nature.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism

_{Casey Luskin
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Animal Algorithms, birds, convergent evolution, Current Biology, Design Inference, Eric Cassell, evolution, intelligent design, lobsters, migration, mollusks, sea turtles, synchrony}

The Elephant Seal in the Room

_{David Coppedge
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You’ve heard about salmon, whales, and sea turtles. Now learn what the clumsy-looking elephant seal accomplishes navigation-wise. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, college students, education, evolution, ID the Future, podcast, professors}

Navigating the Evolution Controversy on College Campuses

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science Education

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Casey Luskin and Nate Herbst discuss their experiences as students in science courses interacting with professors about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological systems, design triangulation, E. coli, elegance, enzymes, evolution, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, precision, proteins, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, transmission}

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

4}

Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abstract thought, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, computer programmers, engineers, Eric Cassell, foraging, intelligent design, Internet, life forms, navigation, robustness}

Ants Use Algorithms Similar to Those of the Internet

_{Science & Culture
March 4, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Optimization algorithms enable the ant colony to decide how many ants to send to a given food source and when to drastically reduce the number. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, design triangulation, DNA, evolution, fitness, function, genetic material, genotype, intelligent design, Martin Nowak, neo-Darwinian theory, organisms, robustness}

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, design triangulation, DNA, evolution, fitness, function, genes, intelligent design, junk DNA, Martin Nowak, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, redundancy}

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, birds, chimpanzees, golf, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, New Zealand, octopuses, Smithsonian Magazine, vertebrates}

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 2, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›