Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Devonian era, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), hagfish, hemoglobin, homoplasy, Illinois, intelligent design, jawed vertebrates, keratin, lampreys, lancelets, Mazon Creek, microCT, missing links, molecular studies, science, South Africa, stem group, vertebrate evolution}

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, academic freedom, ACLU, Alabama, creation science, creationism, Discovery Institute, educators, Edwards v. Aguillard, Indiana, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, law, lawsuits, legislators, Louisiana, Louisiana Science Education Act, Mississippi, persecution, policymakers, politicization, public education, religious beliefs, Science Education Policy, scientific theories, strengths and weaknesses, Supreme Court, Tennessee, West Virginia}

West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2024

Evolution, Science Education

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West Virginia joins Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana, and Mississippi to become the sixth state to adopt some form of an academic freedom policy. Read More ›

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Author
Herman B. Bouma

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Association for the Advancement of Science, atheism, Charles Darwin, Constitution, debate, diversity, DNA, equity, evolution, Harvard University, Louis Agassiz, mainstream science, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), natural selection, Richard Dawkins, science teachers, scientists, space aliens, Stonehenge, teaching}

Healthy Debate? No Thanks, Says National Association of Biology Teachers

_{Herman B. Bouma
March 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One way mainstream science seeks to stifle opposition is by simply refusing to discuss or debate opposing views. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, armadillos, asteroid, Canada, cave bears, civilization, humans, Myth of the Dark Ages, New Scientist, nuclear weapons, Ontario, sloths, University of Alberta, University of Maryland}

What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 14, 2024

Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial cell wall, Darwin’s Bluff, dimers, evolution, Foresight (book), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, infection, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinesin, molecular machines, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pathogen, Robert Shedinger, viruses, Yale University}

Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

_{David Coppedge
March 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Asia, atheism, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, First Cause, fundamentalism, Garden of Eden, God Hypothesis, Higher Criticism, Lamarckian theory, literalism, Louis Agassiz, Nick Spencer, Noah’s Ark, Noah’s Flood, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, quantum weirdness, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, The Necessity of Atheism, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Uncertainty Principle, Victorian England, William James, William Lane Craig}

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

_{Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Ball State University, Biola University, Canceled Science, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Evolution News, faculty, God’s Not Dead, history, information theory, molecular biology, Reasons to Believe, Rice Broocks, science, teaching, tenure, The Boundaries of Science}

Un-Canceled Science

_{Eric Hedin
March 13, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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In one event, the number of people who heard this evidence was more than twice the total number of students who participated in my Boundaries of Science course. Read More ›