Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 16, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, ACLU, Designer Science, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, omissions, Science and Culture Today, scientific breakthroughs, scientists, YouTube videos}

Fact-Checking Designer Science: Casey Luskin on ID History Errors

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 16, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

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I welcome Dr. Casey Luskin to a new and improved podcast studio for a sit-down, in-person conversation! Read More ›

low angle view of scientists holding various test tubes

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Political Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, democratic institutions, economic growth, health, ideology, income, inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Panel on Inequality, moral values, Nature (journal), policy issues, political science, scientists, social mobility, technocracy, technocratic rule, United Nations, wealth}

Top Science Journal Would Empower Scientists to Rule on Income and Wealth

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2026

Political Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Reframing subjective policy issues as questions of objective “science” makes it easier to justify relying on “experts” for policy answers. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, Darwinian theory, description length, descriptions, Design Inference, evolution, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial intelligent design, genetic code, intelligent design, intelligent message, International Journal of Astrobiology, misconception, natural evolution, nucleons, nucleotide, nucleotides, proline, side chains, specification, The Design Inference}

Be Careful! Don’t Think These Authors Are Practicing Intelligent Design

_{Winston Ewert
September 15, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The idea of finding an intelligent message encoded in the standard genetic code is certainly a fascinating possibility. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, architecture, biological systems, biology, cell boundary, cells, chance events, charge gradients, chemical mixture, chemical reactions, chemical transformations, chemistry, complexity, control, control systems, coordinated manufacturing, coordination, emerging system, Energy, energy management, engineering, environmental sources, equilibrium, experiments, feedback regulation, hydrothermal vents, information, information processing, intentions, life, natural engines, natural processes, organization, origin of life, physical forces, proteins, thermodynamics, undirected natural processes}

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Arts
Medicine
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, advice, antibiotics, bottled water, catastrophes, dehydration, disaster training, Discovery Institute Press, downer, emergencies, evacuation, family, first-aid kit, go bag, highways, lecture, mayhem, medicine, medicines, mushroom cloud, nuclear terror, Oppenheimer’s Demon, pain pills, panic, preparations, radiation exposure, Ready.gov, starvation, suspense, terror attack}

Simmons: The Sentence You Never Want to Read, but Should

_{David Klinghoffer
September 14, 2026

Arts, Medicine

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This novelist has spent a good part of his medical career training others for emergencies, and acting in emergencies himself. He takes them seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, background noise, design detection, extraterrestrial intelligence, improbability, intelligent aliens, Jerry Ehman, Ohio State University, outer space, researchers, SETI, standard deviations, William Dembski, Wow! signal}

The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection

_{Winston Ewert
September 14, 2026

Intelligent Design, Physics

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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence searches through evidence from outer space in the hopes of finding something that indicates intelligent ET life. Read More ›

Girl student freelancer working with laptop at home by the window, education and remote work, programmer, online business

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 12, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, academic year, adults, artificial intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Chicago Tribune, Claude, Cleveland, creative power, creativity, Energy, Gemini, Grok, guardrails, habits, images, intellect, Kamar Samuels, learning, New York City, parents, relationships, school districts, schools, Sherry Turkle, students, teachers, technology, text, videos}

How Much Should Students Use AI? Preferably Not at All

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 12, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education

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New York City recently announced a moratorium on AI use in K-12 classes for the 2026-2027 school year. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Chicago, CN Tower, demon core, demons, Em Lattimer, ethics, Geoffrey Simmons, Glenn Winders, Hiroshima, Japan, John Zmirak, Los Angeles, Manhattan Project, new york, novels, nuclear weapons, Ontario, Oppenheimer’s Demon, Ottawa, physics, September, thrillers, Toronto, United States, Washington, World Trade Center}

Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 11, 2026

Arts, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. Read More ›

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Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Reporting
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired}

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

_{Science & Culture
September 11, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Reporting

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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Read More ›