Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Levant, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, population genetics, uranium}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, biologists, Carmen Sapienza, Columbia University, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Forrest Mims, Francis Crick, Genome Biology and Evolution, genomes, intelligent design, John Bodnar, John Mattick, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Human Evolution, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Living with Darwin, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), Nature Methods, Oxford University Press, paradigm shift, Philip Kitcher, predictions, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Taylor & Francis, The Greatest Show on Earth, University of Toronto, W. Ford Doolittle, What’s in Your Genome, William A. Dembski}

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
March 28, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, cosmos, Genesis, humor, Jews, Joe Lieberman, jokes, life, National Review, Politicians, remembrance, Sabbath, Shabbat, The Gift of Rest, United States, Yiddish}

Joe Lieberman, the Sabbath, and Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 28, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In simplest terms, the Biblical institution of a Sabbath is intended as a weekly reminder of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", “backwards retina”, Center for Science and Culture, complexity, designer, DNA, enzymes, evidence, evolutionary processes, fiber optic cables, helicase, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Müller cells, organisms, replication, replisome, retina, topoisomerase}

Is Complexity an Argument Against Design?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Often these claims that “no designer would have done it that way” dissolve on closer inspection. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, biodiversity, climate change, colonialism, discrimination, fossil fuels, health, human rights, pandemic, slavery, technocracy, The Lancet, United Nations, World Health Organization}

Beware of the “Right to Health”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Health and wellness are becoming the primary justifications for international technocracy, or “rule by experts.” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 27, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, data, eclipse, experiments, magnetometer, phone apps, phyphox, scientific papers, solar eclipse, totality}

A Crowd-Sourced Solar Eclipse Experiment

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 27, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The Sensor Logger phone app can record and store the readings from any combination of your phone’s sensors. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 27, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, afterlife, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, C.S. Lewis, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, Harvard University, higher intelligence, intelligent design, Lucretius, Macrobes, materialism, matter, microbes, religions, scientists, Stanford University, supernatural, That Hideous Strength, The Guardian, The Screwtape Letters, UAPs, UFOs}

Meet the Materialist Magicians

_{Daniel Witt
March 27, 2024

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Applied Optics, atmospheric science, curiosity, determination, Discover Magazine, Forrest Mims, ID the Future, intelligent design, magazines, Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist, NASA, Nature (journal), NOAA, podcast, Radio Shack, Science (journal), Scientific American}

Forrest Mims: The Making of a Maverick Scientist

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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What does it take to be a scientist? For Forrest Mims, the answer is simple: you just have to do science. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Darwinists, DNA, evolution, evolutionists, genius, genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), predictions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), science journals, Third Way of Evolution, University of Toronto, William A. Dembski}

A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops

_{David Klinghoffer
March 26, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As a product of care and intention, the genome ought to be comparable in a way with products of human genius, with every detail there for a reason. Read More ›