Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Jurassic period, Microraptor, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, carnivores, common ancestry, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, leaves, mammals, Panda's Thumb, Religions (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality}

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dallas, earth, English, etymology, homicide, information, inkblot, intelligence, intuition, Latin, possibilities, shmoo, Texas, The Design Inference, United States, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

The Connection Between Intelligence and Information

_{William A. Dembski
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Information is everywhere in the sciences. Yet scientists often ignore the connection of intelligence to information. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chickens, eggs, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, First Cause, intelligent design, living systems, Michael Behe, MIT Press, natural genetic engineering, Peter Corning, Platonic forms, purposiveness, symbiogenesis, teleonomy, William A. Dembski}

Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

_{Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, blindness, eyesight, Forrest Mims, hearing, ID the Future, interview, Maverick Scientist, science}

For a Maverick Scientist, Curiosity Lead to Unexpected Adventures

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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In 1907, Forrest Mims’s great-grandfather lost his eyesight in a train track construction accident. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, active transport, amino acid residues, cells, endoplasmic reticulum, hammer, Immune System, intelligent design, ion channels, lysosomes, macrophages, membranes, mitochondria, organelles, peroxisomes, physiology, Quartz, Science (journal), Science Advances, tissue, touch, Yale University}

Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Abigail Shrier, Aristotle, biotechnology, Bismarck, books, ChatGPT4, Claudine Gay, college campuses, DALL-E, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Gemini, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, Google, hallucinations, Harvard University, intelligent design, large language models, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, medicine, Microsoft, North Dakota, Stanford University, theology, truth, verification, Wall Street Journal, websites, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Truth and Trust in Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Christianity, Darwinism, faith and science, history, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialists, Melissa Cain Travis, modern science, natural theology, podcast, science, scientific revolution, United States, Warfare Thesis}

Did Christianity Help or Hinder the Rise of Science?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 2, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Melissa Cain Travis explains why her new course gives special attention to the “warfare thesis,” a late-19th-century idea championed by materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", diffusion, Evolution News, formalism, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, mechanics, Michael Behe, natural law, naturalists, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Pythagoras, science of purpose, scientific atheists, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics, William A. Dembski}

Is Natural Law Irreducible?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 2, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, attorney, Austin, Baylor University, Christianity, faith and science, intelligent design, jesus, law, naturalism, Nobel Prize, Phillip E. Johnson, physicists, Scripture, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, The Nature of Nature, theism, theists, University of Texas}

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

_{William A. Dembski
April 2, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Read More ›