Category: Science | Page 149 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 11, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Mysterium Cosmographicum, podcast, science history, theology, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Tycho Brahe}

Kepler’s Pursuit of a Mathematical Cosmology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 11, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Dr. Travis tracks the progression of Kepler’s ideas to show how he became a key figure in the transition from ancient astronomy to a true celestial physics. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ATP, Barbara McClintock, cellular behavior, Daniel Nicholson, evolution, gene expression, genome, heterogeneity, intelligence, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine conception of the cell, mind, molecular biology, motor proteins, Nobel Prize, protein complexes}

Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

_{Robert Shedinger
September 11, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, agnostics, Big Bang, Brian Keating, faith and science, intelligent design, Into the Impossible, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, universe, YouTube videos}

Meyer: “God and Science, or No God and No Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2023

Cosmology, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Back in 2021, Stephen Meyer talked with UC San Diego cosmologist and “devout agnostic” Brian Keating. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
September 9, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, culture, Democrats, Republicans, robot, singers, Washington DC}

Oliver Anthony and Human Exceptionalism

_{Peter Biles
September 9, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you’ve been online at all for the last few weeks, chances are you’ve come across headlines about the folk/country singer Oliver Anthony. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, debates, dragon, English, evolution, Fundacja En Arche, Holocaust, intelligent design, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, philosophers, Poland, Polish, pseudoscience, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Sweden, Uppsala University, Vladimir Putin}

In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, empirical data, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Harvard University, just-so stories, mammals, paleontology, reptiles, shells, skeletons, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

_{Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, archetype, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, copy, Discovery Institute, human mind, ID the Future, image, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Middle Ages, natural theology, podcast, science history, Thinking God’s Thoughts}

Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, cellular behavior, cellular cognition, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, electronic circuitry, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine conception of the cell, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly, Sewall Wright}

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adolescence, C.S. Lewis, Canceled Science, compass, human mind, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mainstream science, matter, mind, naturalism, planets, rationality, romanticism, stardust, The Weight of Glory, universe}

A Profound Challenge to Materialism, Longing Is Our “Inconsolable Secret”

_{Eric Hedin
September 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Longings that are unsatisfied by the provisions of Earth are not just a weary response to our often stress-laden modern lifestyles. Read More ›