Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, Discovery Institute, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, immaterial reality, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, podcast, Walter Bradley Center}

Did Consciousness Evolve?

_{Science and Culture
April 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agency, Albert Einstein, angels, atoms, brain injury, brains, C.S. Lewis, Energy, faith and science, home, human beings, immaterial mind, intelligent design, intelligent designer, laws of nature, life, light, miracles, oscillations, singing, spirit, substance, universe}

Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
April 12, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, acorn worms, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Darwinian theory, Fossil Friday (series), ghost lineages, paleontology, sea floor}

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
April 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, clouds, corona, Dallas, Discovery Institute, forecast, gold, heart, light, mind, Moon, planets, poetry, sky, solar eclipse, soul, sun, totality, Waxahachie}

Solar Eclipse Right Brain Meanderings

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 11, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Monday in Waxahachie started grey and misty. The forecast for the time of totality was still uncertain. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beliefs, bias, critics, disagreement, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, journalists, Julia Galef, opinions, podcast, science, truth}

Science Needs a Scout Mindset; Here’s Why

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One advantage of the scout mindset is that it makes adjusting the confidence we have in our opinions more of a low-stakes enterprise. Read More ›

Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, Arthur S. Reber, bacteria, cells, cellular basis of consciousness, cellular cognition, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, František Baluška, fungal mind, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution, William B. Miller Jr.}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, americans, astronomers, corona, discovery, earth, eclipse, gas, General Theory of Relativity, Genesis, Goldilocks Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, hydrogen, Isaac Newton, Jupiter, Mars, Mexico, Moon, penumbra, plasma, signs, solar eclipse, spectroscopes, starlight, sun, Texas, The Privileged Planet, umbra, universe}

To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse

_{Jay W. Richards
April 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The rare places where observers can exist are also the best places for observing. The universe seems to be designed not just for life but also for discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, God-talk, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, chromosomes, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, emperor penguins, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, Grand Unified Theory, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, self-replicating molecules, sexual reproduction, synergistic selection, synergy, The Design Inference, turtles, William A. Dembski}

Synergies All the Way Down

_{Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, David Foster Wallace, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›