Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 18, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiology, Bijan Nemati, coronagraph, Earth-like planets, exoplanets, Habitable Worlds Observatory, ID the Future, intelligent design, NASA, The Privileged Planet}

Bijan Nemati on the Search for Habitable Planets

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 18, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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One of the most exciting areas of space research is the search for Earth-like planets around other stars. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 17, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Canceled Science, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Luke Barnes, theology, universe, University of Melbourne}

On Fine-Tuning, Responding to an Atheist YouTuber

_{Eric Hedin
June 17, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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James Fodor is a neuroscience grad student at the University of Melbourne in Australia who identifies himself as an atheist. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, Dr. Dan, evolution, function, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, podcast, Rutgers University}

Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 15, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, autistism, Canada, Compassion and Choices, death, dying, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, hospice, slippery slope, suicide, VSED}

Euthanize Me, or I’ll Starve Myself to Death

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Allowing euthanasia and/or assisted suicide unleashes drastic desires in suffering individuals. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science and Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Europe, funerals, hospitals, humanity, Israel, Palestinians, pandemic, public health, Richard Horton, skeptics, technocracy, The Lancet, World Health Organization}

Dehumanizing Skeptics of the “International Order”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The people’s loss of “belief” was the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Michael Neve, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, sociobiologists, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, J.P. Moreland, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Quarterly Review of Biology}

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

_{David Coppedge
June 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, atheism, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, common descent, Darwin Day, eugenics, evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, J.B.S. Haldane, Jane Austen, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, love, meaning, natural selection, population growth, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, United States, value}

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

_{William A. Dembski
June 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Read More ›