Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 8, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ATP hydrolysis, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromosomes, Discovery Institute, dynein, irreducibly complex systems, kinesin, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, molecular machines, molecular motor, phosphorylation, spindle, tubulin}

Astounding: The Role of Motor Proteins in Cell Division

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 8, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A crucial aspect of mitosis is the movement of chromosomes — initially the alignment of as paired sister chromatids during prometaphase and metaphase. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 8, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, Darwin's Finches, David N. Reznick, downstream, Drosophila, ecosystem, environments, genetic variations, germline, guppies, macroevolution, mutations, natural selection, population, random mutation, stickleback fish, upstream}

Predictions for the Guppy from the Engineering/Design Model

_{Emily Reeves
May 8, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

An engineering model would predict that guppies are designed with operational parameters for different traits, which are set by overarching design logic. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Discovery Institute Academy, education, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, students}

Now Registering: High School Chemistry with an ID Twist

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 7, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

But isn’t learning online a lonely experience? It can be, but not this class! Discovery Institute Academy’s High School Chemistry course is synchronous. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Baruch Spinoza, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, German, Mount Wilson Observatory, quantum mechanics, static universe}

When Einstein Met Lemaître

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 7, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

9}

Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, behavior, body size, Brown University, David N. Reznick, downstream, eggs, evolution, females, Finding Darwin's God, fish, genetic diversity, guppies, J.B.S. Haldane, Kenneth Miller, morphology, mutations, natural selection, physiology, population dynamics, predators, random mutation, upstream, variation}

Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?

_{Emily Reeves
May 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christianity, cultural Christianity, evolutionary biologist, New Atheists, new york, religion, Richard Dawkins, weekend, William A. Dembski}

Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

1}

Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bibliography, cancer, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, design detection, Discovery Institute, Engineering Research Group, function, human genome, human origins, ID 3.0, intelligent design, junk DNA, Research, researchers, Rutgers University, waiting-time problem}

Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance: Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Chinese, Claude Shannon, Contact (novel), demiurge, Dubai, English, etymology, Hamlet, Hebrew, information, inkblot, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, marbles, Moses, Plato, probabilistic resources, probability, rock, SETI, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Stone Age, The Design Inference, Timaeus, William Shakespeare}

Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

_{William A. Dembski
May 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, "Science Says", C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, dialogue, elitism, Eric Metaxas, Francis Collins, free speech, intelligent design, lockdowns, prescience, propaganda, Rainier Club, science fiction, scientism, Seattle, Sigmund Freud, Socrates in the City, That Hideous Strength, The Magician's Twin, totalitarianism}

C. S. Lewis on the Unique Gullibility of the Elites, and More: John West in Conversation with Eric Metaxas

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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A theme in the interview is the dubious role of elites, who stand out for their readiness to surrender their critical faculties when Science Says to do so. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Christof Koch, Commentary, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William A. Dembski}

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 5, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›