Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, biomineralization, Cambridge University, crystals, fossils, intelligent design, iron oxide, magnetic compass, magnetic induction, magnetite, magnetofossils, magnetoreception, Max Planck Institute, organisms, quantum effects, radical pair theory, salmon, trout}

Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
October 8, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic design, antimatter, antiparticles, Arthur Holly Compton, asymmetries, atoms, Big Bang, conservation laws, conservation of momentum, Emmy Noether, Energy, Ernest Rutherford, Ethan Siegel, fermions, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, interstellar space, intuition, life, mathematicians, matter, meaning, neutrinos, nucleus, particles, physics, planetary orbits, planets, universe}

Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is

_{Eric Hedin
October 8, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, active information, Amazon, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Cornell University, endogenous information, exogenous information, George Montañez, German, IEEE Transactions, intelligent design, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, John Sanford, My Personal History with Information (series), peer-reviewed literature, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Singapore, Springer, Technical University of Berlin, University of Erlangen, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, World Scientific}

Breaking into the Peer-Reviewed Engineering Literature

_{William A. Dembski
October 8, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

5}

The book had been typeset. Amazon announced it for preorder. And then, with less than six weeks to publication, anti-ID forces sprang into action. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alistair McKitterick, atheists, Cambridge, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, England, Europe, evolution, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian worldview, London School of Theology, natural theology, nature, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Scotsmen, United Kingdom, Western civilization, Whewell Center}

A Vital European Hub for Theistic Views on Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Alistair McKitterick explains how intelligent design and natural theology provide a robust framework that challenges modern scientific materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, intelligent design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, planets, universe}

Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

_{Winston Ewert
October 7, 2026

Astronomy, Planetology

5}

Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, arrorws, Evangelical Philosophical Society, functional analysis, George Montañez, information, Jay Richards, logarithm, mathematics, measure theory, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Niels Bohr Institute, No Free Lunch, phi, Philosophia Christi, quiver, replicational, Robert J. Marks II, sigma, specificational, The Design Inference, Thomas English, vector-valued integration, Winston Ewert}

Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

_{William A. Dembski
October 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Australia, Bauplans, blueprints, body plans, Cladotheria, echidnas, evolution, families, fossil record, geological record, marsupials, Multituberculata, neo-Darwinian evolution, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, platypuses, predictions, Prototheria, punctuated equilibrium, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, Symmetrodonta, Tom S. Kemp, Triconodonta}

From Australia’s Fossil Record, an Evolutionary Puzzle

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
October 6, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Historical Sciences

3}

In the present article, the most important result is this: All extant Australian marsupial families are also known from the fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›