Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, blueprint of life, cells, computer keys, computer screen, DNA, epigenetic information, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, fertilized egg, genes, hardware, ID the Future, information, integrated complexity, James Gills, protein robots, supercomputer, Thomas Woodward}

Epigenome Is Biology’s Second Revolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

3}

Thomas Woodward compares the epigenetic system to a supercomputer where information is written everywhere — on the hardware, the screen, and even the keys. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 24, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, argumentum ad omnes, argumentum ad populum, B. F. Skinner, brain reflexes, Censor of the Year, Censor of the Year Award, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, Drosophila, free will, fruit flies, Jerry Coyne, libertarian free will, meat machines, morality, operant conditioning, parking lot, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, self-contradiction, social compliance, sophistry, Why Evolution Is True}

Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
June 24, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

A moral society is something entirely different from a well-run pigeon farm or a flourishing bottle of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
June 24, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Aeon, Baylor University, bouncing cosmologies, conformal cyclic cosmology, Conservation of Information, Cumrun Vafa, cyclic cosmologies, dark energy, David Olive, Don Page, empirical record, erebonic field, erebons, eternal recurrence, faith, fantasy, fine-tuning, geometers, Gordon Kane, John Polkinghorne, John Roberts, John Roe, Krzysztof Meissner, Laurie Brown, Michael Denton, Michael Dickson, Northwestern University, Page curve, Paul Tod, Phil Halper, Phillip Johnson, physics, quantum theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dalitz, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Sean McDowell, Simon Saunders, Stephen Meyer, The Nature of Nature, The Story of Everything, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis, William Dembski}

Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

_{Bruce Gordon
June 24, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

24}

This brings us, at last, to the remaining “cyclic” proposal, that of Roger Penrose, which is perhaps the most quixotic of all. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Zoology
Tagged
, AI bots, bugs, consumers, DuckDuckGo, Duke University, economists, fast food, food, food products, hypocrisy, insects, investment, Jeffrey A. Tucker, Nature (journal), nutrition, pasta, preference cascade, preference falsification, protein, protein bars, self-censorship, Sentient Media, Seth Millstein, social pressure, soldiers, Timur Kuran, United Nations}

To Be Honest, Most Humans Don’t Want Insect Burgers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 23, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Zoology

3}

What’s going on here may well be a case of preference falsification, a concept developed by Duke University economist Timur Kuran. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, bestseller, biology, blueprint of life, cells, codes, dance partner, David Klinghoffer, diet, DNA, double helix, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, exercise, genes, genetics, health, ID the Future, information, James Gills, junk DNA, patterns, Tom Woodward}

New Book: Epigenome Is the Genome’s Sophisticated Dance Partner

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 23, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

3}

The book was published yesterday and is already Amazon's #1 bestseller in genetics. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acetyl molecule, acetyl tags, amino acids, Ant-Man, bacterium, beams, biology, broccoli, carbon, cells, Chromosome 17, DNA, engineering, epigenetic information, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, girders, histone acetylase enzyme, histone core, histone deacetylase enzyme, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, hydrogen, Innerspace, intelligent design, James Gills, methyl tag, miniaturization, natural gas, nucleus, oxygen, physics, proteins, submarine, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Thomas Woodward}

20,000 Bots Under the Sea: A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 23, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

11}

Imagine you have been invited to a futuristic discovery center, a facility that has pioneered the ability to shrink people and objects many orders of magnitude. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, animal life, bilaterian animals, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian phyla, Casey Luskin, China, Ediacaran biota, fossil record, fossils, genetic information, geology, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, kelp, marine algae, paleontologists, paleontology, population genetics, preservation, Science (journal), symmetry, waiting times}

At Long Last, Have New Fossil Finds Solved the Cambrian Enigma?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 22, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Dean Rickles, dual aspect monism, fine-tuning, Graham Phillips, illusion, John Archibald Wheeler, Leonard Susskind, many universes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Paul Davies, Princeton University, quantum mechanics, Sydney University, Templeton Ideas, theoretical physicists, universe}

Quantum Mechanics Has Destroyed Classical Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 22, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Whatever this fundamental level of reality that combines mind and matter is, it is — by definition — deeper than human thought can reach. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, artificial intelligence, atheists, beauty, Canada, car crash, Catholic Herald, certainty, Christians, DNA, documentary, double helix, earth, faith and science, Francis Crick, Great Britain, human beings, Iain McGilchrist, intelligent design, James Watson, Mexico, Peter Stanford, Pope Leo XIV, psychiatrists, religion, scientists, Spain, survival, The Story of Everything, The Telegraph, United Kingdom, United States}

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Senior features writer Peter Stanford at The Telegraph seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself. Read More ›

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Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological form, biology, Casey Luskin, cellular life, Charles Darwin, complexity, Cornelius Hunter, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, double helix, epigenetic architecture, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, evolution, genetics, genome, Howard Glicksman, information, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, James Gills, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Pattle P. Pun, proteins, random mutations, Ricardo Bravo, RNA, Robert Kaita, Steve Fuller, Thomas Woodward}

Epigenetics and the Architect: New Book Unveils Design at Biology’s Frontier

_{Science & Culture
June 22, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

11}

Much of the information employed to build biological form is situated in epigenetic architecture beyond the reach of random genetic mutations. Read More ›