Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, progressive ideology, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burmese amber, butterflies, cladistic analysis, cladogram, cockroach, convergence, Fossil Friday (series), Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lepidoptera, mimicry, paleontology, Trichoptera, unguided evolution, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

_{Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, buoyancy, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Cassini mission, clouds, corona, Diamond Ring, Discovery Institute, eclipse, eclipse glasses, Guillermo Gonzalez, heavens, Illustra Media, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pam Bailey, Prometheus (moon), providence, Saturn, Solar Eclipse Experience, sun, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie, weather}

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

_{David Coppedge
April 25, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, multiverse, opinion, science, Texas A&M}

Compelled by Multiverse Logic

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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You’re a Bad Egg if you doubt the multiverse, whatever the flavor, in the same Basket of Bad Eggs as evolution deniers. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
April 24, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Big Bang, Cold War, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, Vesto Slipher}

The True Fathers of the Big Bang

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 24, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Read More ›

Jean-Pierre Luminet

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Date
April 23, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carlo Rovelli, cosmos, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute Press, Edwin Hubble, French National Centre for Scientific Research, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Nobel laureates, Nobel Prize, Stephen Meyer, The Big Bang Revolutionaries}

New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates

_{Science and Culture
April 23, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 22, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, Department of Defense, engineers, GPS, helicopter, humanity, Illustra Media, intelligent design, magnetic field, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Mexico, military, monarch butterfly, sharks, submarine, whales}

Battle Butterflies

_{Daniel Witt
April 22, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 21, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, dexterity, efficiency, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Panda's Thumb, philosophers, podcast, precision, religion, science, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, trade-offs}

The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 21, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

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Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›