Category: Life Sciences | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
April 27, 2026

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archival material, audience, Big Bang, Brian Keating, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Doubt, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Eric Esau, evolution, filmmakers, films, Frank Tipler, Hollywood, intelligence, intelligent design, James Tour, john lennox, materialism, Michael Behe, molecular machines, nano-technology, Nobel laureates, Peter Thiel, Poverty Inc., prizes, Return of the God Hypothesis, screener, Signature in the Cell, software, Stephen Meyer, storytelling, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, thinkers, universe, William Dembski}

The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

_{Jonathan Witt
April 27, 2026

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, causation, character string, context, design intuitions, design perspective, English, food, function, genetics, Genetics (journal), genotype, Gregor Mendel, guitar, house, language, Mendelian genetics, natural language, noun, phenotype, pleiotropy, poker, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, sensory organs, skull, verb, vertebrates, vocalization}

“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

_{Paul Nelson
April 20, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 17, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, bioRxiv, Broad Institute, David Reich, Denisovans, DNA, DNA segments, Europe, geneticists, genetics, Germany, Gran Dolina, Harvard University Press, Homo antecessor, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, humans, hybrids, interbreeding, Levallois tools, Michael Marshall, Middle East, mitochondrial DNA, Morocco, Neanderthals, New Scientist, ochre, Spain, stone tools, Y chromosome}

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans

_{Casey Luskin
April 17, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alien intelligence, alphabetic letters, amino acids, coded instructions, Contact (movie), DNA, Ellie Arroway, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, information, information enigma, intelligent agent, intelligent design, James Tour, James Watson, material universe, molecular biology, molecules, prime numbers, protein synthesis, scientific community, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything}

The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amino acids, angiogenesis, axon, axon guidance, barcode, blood vessel development, brain, brain tissue, cell behaviors, chemical gradients, chemorepellent, childbirth, cytoskeleton, DNA, Douglas Axe, evo‑devo, evolution, evolutionary development, extracellular matrix, eyes, frog, gene regulatory networks, genome, gland cell, glycoprotein, immune function, intelligent design, midbrain, midline, muscle, N‑cadherin, Nature Materials, NCAM1, nerve, nervous system, organs, PIEZO1, Science Daily, Semaphorin-3A, sensory information, sensory navigation, signaling patterns, skeletal biology, Stuart Burgess, tissue geometry, tissue stiffness, Ultimate Engineering, Undeniable (book), Universal Design Intuition, visual signals, zygote}

Precision Design Logic Explains Neural Wiring Guidance Better than Darwinism Does

_{Howard Glicksman
April 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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This is why Darwinists can easily incorporate new discoveries into their origin narrative. It is because they never really address the true causal implications. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, aliens, amnesia, Andy Weir, astrophage, ATP, computer programmers, Daniel Pemberton, Drew Goddard, Eridians, Eva Stratt, eyes, Goldilocks Zone, hearing, Hollywood, intelligence, James Ortiz, life-forms, microphone, mitochondria, mutations, organelles, origin of life, panspermia, parasites, Powers of Ten, Project Hail Mary, puppeteering, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Rocky, Ryan Gosling, Ryland Grace, science fiction, sonar, space pods, stars, survival of the fittest, The Martian, The Story of Everything, transcription, water}

Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis

_{Bethel McGrew
April 13, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

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How could something with a structure this complicated have evolved twice? Ryland Grace thinks it couldn’t have. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beauty, biologists, biology, cosmology, cosmos, documentary, experiments, faith, human experience, information, intelligent design, materialism, metaphysical assumptions, outcomes, philosophy, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific culture, scientific discoveries, sentiment, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universe}

The Story of Everything: Why This Documentary Matters

_{Walter Myers III
April 10, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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It is a moment when the evidence has accumulated to the point where the materialist story is no longer the path of least resistance. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, atheists, beauty, biology, biology class, chemistry, Christopher Hitchens, cosmic design, cosmology, DNA, documentary, Doug Wilson, fine-tuning, fingerprints, galaxy, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, intimacy, life, living cell, machinery, materialist paradigm, mind of God, nature, physical constants, physics, Plato's Revenge, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Sarah Salviander, scientific experts, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, Australia, beginning, biologists, biology, chemistry, cosmos, creation, Fred Hoyle, galaxy, human life, intelligence at the, light, matter, Michael Denton, natural backdrops, oxygen, physiology, scientists, Secrets of the Human Body, universe, water}

Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, hypoxia, intelligent design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA}

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

_{David Coppedge
April 1, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›