Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, active transport, aquaporins, cell membrane, concentration gradient, death, disease, entropy, ion channels, life, Maxwell’s demon, natural forces, Nobel Prize, non-life, osmosis, PNAS, potassium channels, Roderick MacKinnon, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium channels, unnatural selection}

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

_{David Coppedge
March 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, donors, education, Europe, evolution, faith and science, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, professors, psychoanalysis, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, South America, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, theism, undergraduates, United Kingdom, United States, worldview}

Summer Seminars Create the Next Generation of Intelligent Design

_{Tova Forman
March 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Jacob Butschek, one of our 2023 international seminar students, shared his story with me. “Theism gets hammered by society and universities,” he says. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, contingency, death, Ernst Mayr, evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, hummingbirds, intelligent design, males, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, sexual dimorphism, Stephen Meyer, waste}

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, C.S. Lewis, Foresight (book), Gandalf, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, materialism, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, physicalism, Reductionism, star, sun, systems biologists, Systems Biology, The Lord of the Rings, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader}

Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design

_{Daniel Witt
March 18, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

The word “reductionism” is thrown around a lot, but it can mean several different things. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Catholic clergy, education, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Chaberek, Poland, Richard Sternberg, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, The Privileged Planet}

Profound Impact of the Summer Seminars on ID — Application Deadline March 31

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 18, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Science Education

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The program, to be held in spectacular Colorado, is intended primarily for undergrads and graduate students. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, brain, calculation, causation, consciousness, feelings, logic, materialist philosophies, mind, right, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, thinking, thoughts, wrong}

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

_{Science and Culture
March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 16, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, circulatory system, complexity, connective tissue, evolutionary mechanisms, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, respiratory system, skeletal system, tendons}

The Incredible Design of Muscles

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 16, 2024

Biochemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Christof Koch, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, human consciousness, Integrated information theory, James Tour, materialist theories, natural selection, neuroscience, neuroscientists, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, scientists, Teilhard de Chardin, third rail}

Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 15, 2024

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, corals, Ernst Mayr, evolution, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, hippos, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, megafauna, National Geographic, natural selection, ostracods, species, stasis, trilobites}

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›