Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Anne Hathaway, atheists, butterflies, Carl Sagan, cassettes, chomping, dinosaurs, faith, hunger, ice cream truck, intelligence, love, memory, Mesozoic era, movies, Oak Street, physical media, shotgun, solar flare, Stranger Things, T-Rex, The End of Oak Street, villains}

Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

_{Bethel McGrew
September 11, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, emotion, evolution, explainaway, falsified theories, Georgia Tech, human brain, limbic system, lizard brain, neuroscience, overthinking, Paul D. MacLean, physiology, pop psychology, reptilian brain, Science Daily, smarts, social anxiety, The Dragons of Eden, universe}

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 10, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Arts
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Amazon Prime, brain, Dan Brown, Darwinian theory, disaster preparedness, Geoffrey Simmons, George W. Bush, intelligent design, John Zmirak, meaning, medical, nihilism, novels, Oppenheimer’s Demon, physicians, purpose, Quran, Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Meyer, suspense, Terrell Clemmons, terrorism, United 93}

Oppenheimer’s Demon Is “9/11 Times a Thousand”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2026

Arts, Neuroscience & Mind

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For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 you may be wondering what to read or watch for the occasion. I have a few suggestions. Read More ›

Stadium, man running and athlete on a runner and arena track for sprint race training. Fast, run and sports exercise of a male person in marathon for fitness and workout outdoor on a field for health

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architectures, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, biological design, biology, Can Science Explain Everything?, catching, climbing, compactness, fine-tuning, fingers, freedom, hand, human anatomy, humanoid robots, humans, intelligent design, interfaces, john lennox, joints, leaping, linkage mechanisms, musculoskeletal system, poor design, running, segmentation, Signature in the Cell, sloppy design, sophistication, sprinting, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, weight, William Dembski, wrist}

New Stuart Burgess Article on Human Joints Reflects Growing Recognition of Design in Biology

_{Brian Miller
September 10, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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A journal committed to scientific materialism publishes an article explicitly challenging evolution and promoting design. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biotechnology, biotic populations, Center for Science and Culture, Christians, conversations, farming, fruit, ID Education Day, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, multicellular complexity, offspring, Pew Research Center, reproducibility, Science and Culture Today, seeds, seminars, Summer Seminars, synthetic biochemistry}

The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
September 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, asylums, Balrog, British society, characters, charity, Chicago, compassion, credit card debt, Darwinian narrative, Darwinism, emergency management coordinators, federal law enforcement, first responders, Gandalf, Geoffrey Simmons, history, home foreclosure, hospitals, human life, military specialists, national security agents, Oppenheimer’s Demon, panic, perpetrators, physicians, stakes, stories, World War II, worldview}

Why the Satisfying Thrill of the Thriller? Thoughts on Oppenheimer’s Demon

_{Terrell Clemmons
September 8, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This week marks 25 years since the shocking attacks of September 11, 2001. Why did the civilized world respond as it did? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, biochemists, C. W. Howell, Discovery Institute, dissertation, documentation, Duke University, fabrication, investigation, Michael Behe, New York University Press, notation, Office of Counsel, public access, publishers, reputational harm}

Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

_{John G. West
September 8, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Read More ›

a group of scientists are working in a laboratory

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acids, adaptation, architectural plan, autonomy, catalysts, crystallization, designer, drying, early Earth, Energy, environment, experiments, feedstock, filtration, gases, high-pressure catalytic reactors, high-temperature furnaces, information, intelligent design, life, machinery, manufacturing specifications, Miller-Urey experiment, natural materials, nature, origin of life, pathway to life, purification, reagents, reproduction, Research, self-organizational processes, synthetic chemists, unguided chemistry}

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›

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Date
September 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Unlike Darwin, Wallace grew up among the middle class and had to work for a living. This dictated the contours of his life and research. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 6, 2026

Categories
Mathematics
Origin of Life
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, biology, Christoph Adami, Conservation of Information, encoded information, evolution, functional sequences, information, intelligent design, mathematics, monkeys, monomers, origin of life, randomness, RNA world, Scrabble, The Evolution of Biological Information, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare}

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

_{Winston Ewert
September 6, 2026

Mathematics, Origin of Life

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But what if instead of keyboards, the familiar monkeys were drawing Scrabble tiles? Read More ›