Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anolis lizard, Archaeoraptor, bones, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fake fossils, forgery, Fossil Friday (series), journalists, paleontology, phylogenetic studies, Piltdown fly, Piltdown Man, reptiles, Scientific American, soft tissue, The Conversation}

Fossil Friday: Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check

_{Günter Bechly
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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It was considered to be “one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, natural processes, podcast, protein sequences, proteins, Research, Rope Kojonen, sequence space}

Brian Miller: Rarity and Isolation of Proteins in Sequence Space

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Miller reports on research showing that the probability of a protein continuing to work after each mutation drops precipitously. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, philosophers, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, storage}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, cars, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Jay Richards, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, languages, No Free Lunch, Philosophia Christi, probabilistic resources, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

_{William A. Dembski
February 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, David Coppedge, Imperial College London, intelligent design, James Tour, Joana Xavier, materialism, Nature (journal), Nick Lane, Perry Marshall, science journals, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer}

On the Origin of Life, a Measure of Intelligent Design’s Impact on Mainstream Science

_{David Klinghoffer
February 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Dr. Xavier rejects ID, but recommends an ID book to “everyone I can” because “it exposes a lot of the questions that people try to sweep under the carpet.” Read More ›