Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 30, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, blue jeans, body type, Brian Miller, David Klinghoffer, DNA, earth, eugenics, genes, genetic predisposition, genetics, genome, Heaven, humor, information, intelligent, jeans, Kara Kennedy, material genome, mathematics, Michael Levin, philosophy, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, race, Richard Sternberg, Spencer Klavan, Sydney Sweeney, The Free Press, white supremacy}

With Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes,” Plato Exacts His Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
July 30, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I had no sense of humor whatsoever about the whole thing, I would point out that the nature of “genes” is the subject of a fascinating scientific dispute. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 30, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, 'Oumuamua, aliens, Anti-Semite of the Week, anti-Semitism, Avi Loeb, Brian Keating, Candace Owens, Claudine Gay, Darwinists, Dave Farina, extraterrestrial intelligence, genocide, Harvard University, Israel, Jews, John West, Nick Fuentes, October 7, Paul Nelson, Professor Dave, science educators, space, Tel Aviv, UC San Diego, X (platform), YouTube videos, Zionism}

On YouTube, Dave Farina Gives Avi Loeb the Hamas Treatment

_{David Klinghoffer
July 30, 2025

Astronomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Farina was known to us before for his puerile attack videos aimed at intelligent design proponents. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arginine, bacteria, bacterial cell, bacterial systems, biosynthesis, conformational change, DNA, enzymes, evolutionary origins, genes, lactose, operons, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, repressor, RNA polymerase, sequence homology, stop codons, structural motif, superfamily, transcriptional hierarchies, tryptophan}

Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 29, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As we see in these two examples, the design logic is the same. And yet, these two systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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, Andrew Klavan, Apologetics Profile, Big Bang, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Discovery Institute Academy, education, evolution, ID the Future, Kristin Marais, Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, neo-Darwinian evolution, origin of life, origin of the universe, podcast, students, teachers, The Daily Wire, universe}

Exploring Intelligent Design: A Conversation with Casey Luskin and Kristin Marais

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Does intelligent design have a better answer for the origin of the universe and the origin of life than the standard neo-Darwinian explanation? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
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, Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionists, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology}

Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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, ancestors, archaeologists, Asia, axes, blades, bones, China, evolution, fruits, Gantangqing, grapes, herbs, history, hominins, human mind, humans, leaves, meat, Michael Egnor, Middle Pleistocene, Mihai Andrei, nuts, rhizomes, seeds, The Immortal Mind, tools, tubers, wooden tools, ZME Science}

Prehistoric Humans Were Not So Brutish After All

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2025

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Overall, our ancestors have persistently failed to be anywhere near as stupid as current evolutionary theory requires. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
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, __trending, 1 percent myth, animals, apes, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, cruelty, Death in the Afternoon, Dogs, Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, Jim Banks, Journal of Human Evolution, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, paleoanthropologists, people, psychology, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, wokeness}

Luskin in the NY Post Calls Out Smithsonian on Human Origins

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

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The museum misinforms visitors about how humans are so very, very close to non-human creatures. Equating humans with non-humans isn't humane. It's the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 26, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, Associated Press, bones, brain, burial, Colin Barras, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, Melanie Lidman, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, New Scientist, Rising Star Cave, skeletons, stereotype, teeth, The Immortal Mind, Tinshemet Cave, Yossi Zaidner}

Investigation of Ancient Burials Yields Surprises

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 26, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Archaeologists are reporting on a group culture around death from 100,000 years ago, maybe involving both Neanderthals and modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
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, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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, Alfred Adler, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, inferiority complex, irrefutable belief systems, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Dobzhansky}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›