Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, contemplation, courage, creativity, Declaration of Independence, dehumanization, designer, etymonline.com, faith, free will, freedom, friction, happiness, hope, human beings, humankind, humanness, humans, individuality, intuition, Karl Jaspers, liberty, life, love, Man in the Modern Age, meaning, Nicolai Berdyaev, organization, philosophers, presence, reasoning, relationship, resistance, spontaneity, surprise, technology, transcendence, virtuousness}

Endowed with Spontaneity: Celebrating Human Freedom

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Psychology

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That’s 1930s-German-philosopher-speak for the power and freedom human beings have to know themselves, be known to others, and be active agents in the world. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, acetylation, atheists, biological codes, biology, Cambridge University, DNA, DNA tag maps, evolutionists, George Church, Harvard University, histone tag maps, histones, human cell, Human Genome Project, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhone, materialism, methylation, Michael Behe, Mind and Cosmos, Nanoarchaeum equitans, Oxford University Press, Peter Lipton, phosphorylation, Robert Prinz, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, supercomputer, Thomas Nagel, uniformitarianism, William Dembski}

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
July 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale}

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

_{Neil Thomas
July 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, art, atoms, calculus, Carlo Rovelli, chimpanzees, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dogs, electrons, great apes, higher power, human consciousness, human language, humans, intelligent design, language, laughter, literature, Michael Egnor, mud, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, sand dollar, speech, squirrels, trees, universe}

Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Paleontology
Tagged
, development, fetal growth, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany, growth, human forms, infants, Lower Bavaria, modern humans, Neanderthals, perinates, pregnancy, Royal Society Open Science, Sesselfelsgrotte cave, Thorsten Uthmeier}

Paper: Neanderthal Babies Developed Like Modern Humans

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2026

Paleontology

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Don’t miss the words of Professor Uthmeier: “both human forms.” What he’s saying is that both Neanderthals and modern humans were “human forms.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, intelligent design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, metronome, Nature (journal), orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science}

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

4}

Today on Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creator, Declaration of Independence, divine image, Eastern bloc, endowed by our creator, government, human dignity, human rights, intelligent design, John West, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leon Kass, Marxism, political science, science, secularism, Soviet Union, useful fiction, Voltaire}

The Science of Darwin and Marx Provides No Support for “Unalienable Rights”

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Voltaire said that madness is to have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Read More ›

Cockpit of a submarine offering underwater cruises from Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii - Round porthole with a steering wheel and dozens of switches used to make a submersible ship dive

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cellular activity, cellular architecture, Darwinian evolution, DNA, epigenetic controls, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, ID the Future, information, Innerspace, James Gills, living cell, molecular machines, sci-fi movies, shrinking, submarine, Tom Woodward}

Aboard a Submarine to Explore a Living Cell

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 2, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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What if you could climb aboard an incredible shrinking submarine and travel into the heart of a living cell? This would be a tour like no other, to be sure! Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, human rights, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo}

On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›