Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, application, Bijan Nemati, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, Daniel Reeves, dissenters, events, evolution, evolutionary biology, graduate school, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Iron Curtain, learning, professors, science, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, teachers, undergraduates}

Summer Seminars: Beyond the Evolutionary Firewall

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2024

Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

The Center for Science and Culture is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

3}

They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blueprint, Chance and Necessity, DNA, hominids, Homo sapiens, human beings, Jacques Monod, Nazis, Nobel Prize, polypeptides, science of purpose, scientific atheists}

From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
March 12, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Biology was becoming a "real" science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, BioEssays, Bruce Alberts, complex life, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, convergent evolution, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinian evolution, design pattern, Design Patterns, electron transport, intelligent design, ions, Molecular Biology of the Cell, neo-Darwinian mechanism, nuclear pore complex, proteins, proton pumps, science, University of Washington}

Is It Becoming Acceptable to Speak of Biological Systems and Processes in Terms of Design?

_{David Coppedge
March 12, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

In this example, think of the Darwinese as packing peanuts that can be removed to get to the important items inside. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Fortunate Universe, aliens, David Klinghoffer, DNA, employment, extraterrestrials, intelligent design, Joana Xavier, nanomachines, scientists, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer}

Aliens in the Garbage

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

8}

Some people — whether they would put it in so many words or not — believe that certain types of answers are simply off-limits in a scientific inquiry. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, complexity, Emily Reeves, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, philosophers, podcast, protein evolution, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, theologians}

The Incompatibility of Evolution and Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Though Dr. Rope Kojonen acknowledges the design of the flagellum, he credits a rigged evolutionary process with its creation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

8}

A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Brian Miller, careers, Center for Science and Culture, curiosity, elegance, Emily Kurlinski, Emily Sandico, friendship, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent design, interview, Natural Sciences, natural world, nature, order, podcast, pseudonym, Research, science, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design}

Transformative: “Mary,” a PhD Biochemistry Student, on the Summer Seminars on ID

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Why does she use a pseudonym in the interview? You may be able to guess, but listen in to hear her explanation. Read More ›