Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, Middle Cambrian, mud dragons, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades, velvet worms}

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, evolution, evolutionists, function, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, peer-reviewed literature, Rutgers University, technical literature}

“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

_{Casey Luskin
May 2, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debate, debris, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, evolution, evolutionary history, function, genome, human genome, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, non sequitur, non-coding DNA, peer-reviewed, persistent scientific errors, pseudogenes, repetitive DNA, RNA, Rutgers University, satellite DNA, The NonSequitur Show, transposons}

Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Genetics

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The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, debate, Discovery Institute, evolution, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Long Story Short, misrepresentation, Rutgers University, The Codes of Life, The NonSequitur Show, YouTubers}

Debate: Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale, Thursday, May 2

_{David Klinghoffer
May 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: "Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?" Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christian education, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Craig Keener, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, ghetto mentality, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, Mike Licona, N. T. Wright, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Root of All Evil, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education

22}

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, New Synthesis, panspermia, Peter Corning, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, symbiosis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia}

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

_{Daniel Witt
May 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
April 30, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Arthur Walker, cemetery, Howard Robertson, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Leonhard Euler, physicists, static universe, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, typhoid fever, World War II}

A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 30, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, agency, automaton, complexity, consciousness, evidence, evolution, free will, fungal mind, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, materialism, memory, mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity}

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

_{Daniel Witt
April 29, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 28, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher}

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 28, 2024

Cosmology, Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Read More ›