Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent}

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

_{William A. Dembski
April 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, "Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary rate, Fossil Friday (series), heterozygous sites, intelligent design, introgression, Kafkaesque, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, Philip Magness, PLOS, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), scientific community, Svante Pääbo, Sydney Brenner, University of Cambridge}

Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

4}

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, artificial intelligence, biologists, chess, Darwinian evolution, David Hullender, Elsevier, equations, evolution, evolutionary models, Isaac Newton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, logic, Olen Brown, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, scientific inquiry, self-assembly}

Science Paper: Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
April 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The authors conclude, "It seems remote that AI would conclude that it is ‘turtles all the way down’.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Iphigenia, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

13}

Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aqueducts, block printing, China, Christianity, Egypt, Europe, Galileo Galilei, gunpowder, historians, history, Isaac Newton, James Tour, Johannes Kepler, pyramids, roads, Robert Boyle, Rome, scientific revolution, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Science Education
Tagged
, academic misconduct, archeology, Arxiv.org, biological origins, cryptography, data falsification, data integrity, data science, Design Inference, Forensics, information, intelligent design, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Nature (journal), physicists, Piltdown Man, plagiarism, probabilities, probability, randomness, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, specification, Stanford University, superconductivity, Theo Baker, University of Rochester, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

_{William A. Dembski
April 17, 2024

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Science Education

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The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, business, Congress, corporations, currency, environmental movement, environmentalists, Florida, granite outcroppings, Great Salt Lake, human rights, Idaho, inflation, legal standing, legislation, nature, nature rights, Ohio, personhood, pond scum, radicals, rivers, Santa Monica, states, Utah}

Utah Versus Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

3}

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, brain, Current Biology, distance, geometry, gravity, hive, honey bees, information processing, Lars Chittka, navigation, Neural Networks, travel distance, waggle dance}

New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance

_{Eric Cassell
April 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Big Tech, Casey Luskin, censorship, Denyse O'Leary, disinformation, diversity, Free Science, free speech, government, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Internet, science}

Slouching Toward Totalitarianism — How to Fight Science Censorship

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

2}

Scientific censorship is on the rise. Governments are colluding with Big Tech to suppress unfavorable ideas Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, America, commentators, Darwinian theory, diversity, English, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Katherine Maher, media, Michael Behe, National Public Radio, News, radio, reporters, The Free Press, United States, viewpoint diversity}

“Irreducible Complexity” in the News

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

2}

In a loose sense, America may be “irreducibly complex” but NPR sure is not. And “diverse”? America is, but NPR certainly isn’t. Read More ›