Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, Discovery Institute, DNA, Dr. Dan, ENCODE, ERVs, Evolution News, Ewan Birney, function, genome, junk DNA, Nature (journal), pseudogenes, repetitive DNA, RNA, Rutgers University, YouTube channels}

Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, anthropomorphism, Carl Zimmer, cheating, consciousness, cooperation, Quanta, virologists, viruses, Washington University}

Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

5}

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, biogeography, dinosaurs, Eurasia, Fossil Friday (series), Late Cretaceous, New World monkeys, North America, paleontology, Pangaea, rafting animals, seafaring, swimming, terrestrial animals}

Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

_{Günter Bechly
May 24, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, novels, podcast, Steven Spielberg, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, young adults}

New Novel Invites Teens to Ponder our Privileged Planet

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 23, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a wealth of books covering the arguments for intelligent design, and yet one type of book has so far been missing — a young adult novel. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, media, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Review, pandemic, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination, Wuhan Institute of Virology}

How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 23, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, appendages, bats, beetles, bioengineering, birds, butterflies, Caltech, dragonflies, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, limbs, Michael Dickinson, Mona Lisa, Monarch butterflies, Nature (journal), neurons, smartphones, wasps, wings}

Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

_{David Coppedge
May 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, common ancestor, evolution, intelligent design, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, systems engineering, Travel, United States}

Promoting Design Arguments in Mexico and Beyond

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 22, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I welcome back Dr. Brian Miller, this time to discuss his recent participation at a conference on science and faith in Guadalajara. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioluminescence, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cnidarians, comedy, corals, credulity, entertainment, enzymes, evolution, Florida International University, intelligent design, just-so stories, light, Live Science, marine biology, materialists, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Smithsonian Institution}

Let There Be Bioluminescence

_{David Coppedge
May 22, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, cancer, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Minneapolis, novels, science class, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, young adults}

Eat or Be Eaten: Excerpt from New DI Press Novel for Young Adults

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
May 22, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

10}

In science class, Mr. Charlie (as Isaac had to call him at school) preached Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection — survival of the fittest. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Andrea Roli, argument from ignorance, blacks, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Peter Corning, Racism, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism}

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

_{Daniel Witt
May 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Read More ›