Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 6, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, camouflage, cuttlefish, Darwinian mechanisms, fitness landscapes, Irreducible Complexity, MIT, mutations, NBC, Office of Naval Research, probabilistic resources, reverse-engineering, skin, Sudan, Systems Biology, Washington Post}

Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish

_{Daniel Witt
March 6, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 6, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, education, environmental fitness, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Danaher, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, motives, Phillip E. Johnson, prior probability, probability theory, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, University of Galway, William A. Dembski}

Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 6, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deadline, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 5, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The setting is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines, and numberless critters, from deer to bobcats to garter snakes (I caught a cute one). Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, barometer, cicadas, Cleveland, clouds, corona, cosmos, Dallas, darkness, Discovery Institute, flash spectrum, Jay Richards, magnetic field, Maine, Moon, phyphox, shadow bands, solar eclipse, Solar Eclipse Experience, sound, spirituality, sun, Texas, The Privileged Planet, total eclipse, totality, Waxahachie, weather, weather forecasts}

A Portal to the Heavens: Preparing for the Solar Eclipse

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 5, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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While this is not a science experiment per se, be sure to talk with people soon after totality and note commonalities in what you hear. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
History of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinism, earth, epicycles, evolution, Galileo Galilei, geocentric model, geocentricism, hydrogen, Louis Pasteur, maggots, natural selection, nature, Nicolaus Copernicus, predictions, Ptolemy, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Feynman, Robert Shedinger, scientific theory, solar system, spontaneous generation}

Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

_{Eric Hedin
March 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, History of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter. Read More ›

Sunset on the red rocks of the Garden of the Gods State Park in Colorado Springs

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Date
March 4, 2024

Categories
Arts
Biochemistry
Bioethics
Cosmology
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, application, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, Casey Luskin, Colorado, computational biology, deadline, developmental biology, economics, education, embryology, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, molecular biology, paleontology, Politics, professionals, researchers, Robert J. Marks II, scholars, scientism, scientists, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers, technocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, theology, Travel, Wesley J. Smith}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Are FREE but the Application DEADLINE Approaches

_{Science and Culture
March 4, 2024

Arts, Biochemistry, Bioethics, Cosmology, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Science Education

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In the shadow of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak, we’ll meet and learn from the top scientists and scholars in the ID community. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 4, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacterium, complexity, Darwinian evolution, DNA, E. coli, evolvability, information, information theory, intelligent design, Kolmogorov complexity, Kolmogorov information, Leslie Orgel, life, molecules, polymers, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, specification, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Origins of Life, Winston Ewert}

Orgelian Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
March 4, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I have presented Orgel’s account of specified complexity so readers can decide which they prefer, Orgel’s or the one described in this series. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees, crows, debris, dolphins, hands, Harvard University, life forms, Michael Haslam, monkeys, octopuses, Oxford University, sea urchins, tools}

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 2, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, blood, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, diseases, embryonic stem cells, gold standard, HIV, media, mutations, Politicians, settled science, stem cells, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

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A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, disorder, entropy, human intelligence, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, order, physical constants, Physics Essays, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, William A. Dembski}

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›