Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Universe from Nothing, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, chance, Dan Graur, design, ENCODE project, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, junk RNA, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Mlodinow, lizard brain, Michael Shermer, models, physicists, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Scoles, Science and Culture Today, Scientific American, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, survival, The God Delusion, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, University of Houston}

In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Genetics, Origin of Life

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Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Arthur Fine, asymmetry, Bill Wimsatt, Christianity, computer science, David Malament, doctorate, economics, faith, Guinness Book of World Records, Harold Booher, Harvey Friedman, James Gleick, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), New York Times, nonrandomness, Northwestern University, Noûs, Ohio State University, Persi Diaconis, philosophy, psychology, randomness, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, statistics, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›

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Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ars Technica, brain, designer, engineering, evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science}

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

_{Science & Culture
September 28, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Neuroscience & Mind

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Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, bean jar, Blu-ray, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmic origins, cosmological models, debates, dice, fine-tuning, ID the Future, intelligent design, multiverse, naturalism, Phil Halper, physics, scoring system, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universe}

Gordon and Miller Answer Objections to Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 28, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Fine-tuning strongly favors theism because it predicts a life-permitting order in advance, while naturalism only retrofits explanations after the fact. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ant swarms, Audrey Dussutour, biology, brain, carbon, cognition, consciousness, cuttlefish, eliminative materialism, eyes, fungi, Hokkaido University, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, jellyfish, limbs, Michael Levin, mouth, nuclei, oat flakes, panpsychism, Physarum polycephalum, plants, protoplasm, Samanth Subramanian, silicon, The Guardian, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trees}

Slime Smarts: These Brainless Blobs Are Brighter than You Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some want to claim that slime molds poses a threat to the idea that humans are exceptional. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotic sac, babies, bats, birds, Caribbean, caves, Charles Darwin, childbirth, Coast to Coast AM, coincidences, contralateral control, evolution, fish, George Noory, heart, humans, intelligent design, mammals, Monarch butterflies, mothers, natural selection, Oppenheimer’s Demon, pelvic bone bridge, pelvic muscles, reptiles, Stone Age, theism, Wizard of Oz}

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 28, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, design community, entropy, Ergodic Theory and Information, Evanston Public Library, formalism, improbability, information, information theory, Journal of Theoretical Probability, Leo Kadanoff, mathematics, nonlinear dynamics, Patrick Billingsley, physics, probability, Probability and Measure, probability theory, randomness, specified complexity, uniform probability distribution, Wolf Prize}

My Mathematical Development: Probability and Improbability

_{William A. Dembski
September 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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As it is, probabilities are everywhere in information theory, and yet probability theory and information theory have a very different feel. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 27, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, Biochemical Predestination, biochemistry, cassette tapes, Charles Thaxton, chemistry, Dean Kenyon, Energy, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Gary Steinman, information, intelligent design, Jon Buell, Lake Thun, Man’s Origin — Man’s Destiny, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), Of Pandas and People, origin of life, Philosophical Library, Roger Olsen, San Francisco State University, Switzerland, technology, The Creation of Life, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago, University of Helsinki, Walter Bradley}

Discovering a Design Argument Based on Biological Information

_{William A. Dembski
September 27, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Charles Thaxton, along with Walter Bradley and Roger Olsen, wrote what arguably was the first official book of the intelligent design movement. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, function, genotype, information, information processing, intelligent design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism}

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

_{William A. Dembski
September 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close Encounters: A Better Explanation, Douglas Axe, Duane Gish, evolution, extraterrestrials, Francis Schaeffer, G. K. Chesterton, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research, John Warwick Montgomery, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, New Age, Pandora’s box, Stephen Meyer, Steven Spielberg, UFOs, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, William Dembski}

My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

_{William A. Dembski
September 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›