Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
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, __trending, bacteria, cells, clueless, control, E. coli, genes, guidance, James Tour, Kate Adamala, materialists, minimal cell, New York Times, origin of life, plagiarism, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, SpudCell, University of Minnesota}

We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

_{Science & Culture
July 2, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

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A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, Alexander H. Stephens, Amazon Prime, America 250, American Founders, Catholic Integralism, Christian Fascism, citizens, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, Emerging Right, Eric Metaxas, George Washington, history, Independence Day, Jeremy Boreing, Jeremy Boreing Show, Jews, John West, Newport, Revolution (book), Rhode Island, Rick Green, slavery, Tucker Carlson, Woke Right}

West, Boreing, Metaxas on the Woke Right Versus the Character of the Founders

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2026

Evolution, Political Science

3}

It’s surprising that no definite name has yet attached itself to this poisonous brew. Read More ›

The Supreme Court, in Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Political Science
Tagged
, American exceptionalism, Bible, birthright citizenship, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, Eric Metaxas, faith and science, Fourteenth Amendment, Jeremy Boreing Show, political science, Rick Green, Supreme Court, United States}

John West on Jeremy Boreing Show, Today at 2 PM: Birthright Citizenship and America 250

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Political Science

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The Jeremy Boreing Show is smart, provocative, and has its head screwed on straight — somewhat of a rarity today. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, Declaration of Independence, democracy, dignitas, divine image, endowed by our creator, faith and science, gas chambers, gulags, Harold J. Berman, Harvard Law School, human rights, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Latin, United States}

Are Our Rights Blessed by God, or Begrudged by Government?

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 1, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anatomy, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, church, consensus science, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, evolution, faith and science, flexor tendon, ID the Future, information theory, intelligent design, medical school, neurosurgeons, novels, podcasts, professionals, professors, Science and Culture Today, seizures, Shelby Bailey, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, students, suicide, surgery, textbooks}

Designed for Destruction? A Surgeon’s Finger on the Trigger

_{Tova Levengood
July 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

In this agonized season, Skiff read everything he could get his hands on, searching for meaning somewhere. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, barbecues, Benjamin Franklin, Christians, Constitutional Convention, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, EndowedbyOurCreator.com, family, fireworks, friends, government, James Madison, John West, July 4., Kerby Anderson, political debates, Stephen Meyer, survey, The Federalist Papers, theists, U.S. Constitution}

Celebrate America 250 — With the Science of the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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If you are really short on time, all these themes are compressed into in an effective image, above, that you can click on, read, and share through social media. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Berkley Gryder, BIO-Complexity, blood cells, bone cells, cells, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, egg cell, embryo, embryologists, ENCODE, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Epigenome Roadmap, Human Epigenome Project, Human Genome Project, James P. Gills, Nature (journal), nerve cells, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, skin cells, sperm, submarine, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, zona pellucida, zygote}

The Zygote Code and Other Mysteries

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 30, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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As development progresses, each cell is directed to unique use of its DNA files by the epigenetic system, which sits above the DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 29, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Political Science
Tagged
, Andrea Gawrylewski, Armageddon, arXiv, autoethnography, Carole LaBonne, Colin Wright, COVID-19, Democrats, Gallup, government, Grant Witness, grants, H. Winet, hallucinations, Harvard University, Keir Starmer, NIH, Northwestern University, references, Republicans, Research, researchers, Science Alert, Scientific American, Scott Delaney, Today in Science, Vannevar Bush, Vitomir Kovanovic}

Is Government’s Relationship with Science “Crumbling”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 29, 2026

Medicine, Political Science

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The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 29, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Political Science
Tagged
, __trending, Abrahamic faiths, Amazon Prime, Beersheba, Brian Josephson, Christians, City of David, creator, David Friedman, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, Gettysburg, Great Britain, intelligent design, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Mike Pompeo, monotheism, Nazareth, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, Plymouth Rock, Return of the God Hypothesis, Route 60: The Biblical Highway, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Trump Administration, United States, Valley Forge}

On the Road: The Science of Design in an American Context

_{Granville Sewell
June 29, 2026

Faith & Science, Political Science

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We are indebted to the Jewish and Christian writers of the Bible for these truths. They were certainly not self-evident to other cultures of that time. Read More ›