Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA polymerase, ENCODE, How Life Works, living cells, naturalism, Philip Ball}

Reading Between the Lines: Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book

_{Robert Shedinger
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Ball, in describing this new biology, feels the need to appeal to design language despite his overt disavowal of any support for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adoption, atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christopher Hitchens, Darwinism, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Iowa, literature, Michael Behe, novels, Richard Dawkins, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, young adults}

The Farm at the Center of the Universe: Q&A with the Authors

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The granddad is the novel’s primary defender of intelligent design and belief in God. He’s a bright, curious retired chemistry professor. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, California, Cambridge University Press, conservation, design filter, endangered species, Kenneth Miller, Michael Shellenberger, nature, Nature (journal), Patrick Brown, politically incorrect, scientific materialism, self-censorship, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

_{Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Zoology
Tagged
, Aristotle, cats, Cicero, digestion, Dogs, ethology, Galen, grass, indigenous peoples, intelligence, medicinal plants, orangutan, Plutarch, self-medication, Stanford University}

Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Zoology

4}

Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Australia, cancer, cocaine, European Union, fentanyl, fossil fuels, global warming, Massachusetts, meat, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, Norway, Oregon, Philippines, Singapore, smoking, technocracy}

On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Darwinian evolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary narrative, ID the Future, intelligent design, junk DNA, Long Story Short, materialism, non-coding DNA, podcast, science stopper}

How the Myth of Junk DNA Hindered Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

For decades, we’ve been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, babies, childhood, chimpanzees, evolution, humans, menopause, mothers}

“Evolutionary” Analysis of Childhood Is Just Speculation

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

This sort of thing is thought of as science partly out of courtesy and partly out of fear of the Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, In the Beginning, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe}

The Big Bang Simplified

_{Granville Sewell
May 31, 2024

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, butterflies, cyanide, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, lineages, molecular clocks, phylogeny, Stuttgart Natural History Museum}

Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
May 31, 2024

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial life, cells, computability, Daniel Witt, Denis Noble, genome, ID the Future, information, Justin Brierley, life, logos, matter, mind, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer, The Selfish Gene, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, William Lane Craig}

Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies. Read More ›