Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aldovanda, carnivorous plants, carnivory, Charles Darwin, chitinase, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, digestive enzymes, Dionaea, enzymes, evolution, Genlisea, Germany, Heinz-Albert Becker, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, Nepenthes, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Book, botanists, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, domestication, evolution, health, history, Joseph Dalton Hooker, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, variation}

Darwin’s Bluff — Continued

_{Robert Shedinger
February 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, I turned up some later letters showing that Darwin’s bluff extended well beyond 1863. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, correspondence, Darwin’s Bluff, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Günter Bechly, history, ID the Future, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paleontologists, podcast, Robert Shedinger, scholars, scientific evidence}

Darwin and the Mystery of the Missing Evidence

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin continually promised his “big book” full of missing evidence to many of his correspondents but failed to deliver it. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, biologists, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, function, genome, graduate students, How Life Works, ignorance, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nature (journal), null hypothesis, Philip Ball, postdocs, researchers, science journals, science writers, University of Toronto}

With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

_{Paul Nelson
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alpha Centauri, argument from ignorance, atheism, biological information, complex life, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, Frank Turek, honesty, human consciousness, intelligent causes, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, moral choice, natural laws, natural theology, naturalism, philosophers, Richard Swinburne, Secular Outpost, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theism, Twitter, Victor Reppert, Volkswagen Beetle, William Laine Craig}

Atheist Philosopher Explains Why Intelligent Design Is Not a “God of the Gaps” Argument

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Despite our many disagreements, I sincerely appreciate Lowder’s spirit and intellectual honesty. I hope the next generation of secular thinkers follow his lead. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, bias, censorship, Galileo Affair, heliocentrism, ideas, information, intelligent design, peer review, power, publications, Research, Roman Catholic, scientific community, scientists, self-censorship, trust, truth}

PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, birds, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Darwin’s God, evolution, fish, Galápagos Islands, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, oceanic islands, On the Origin of Species, progressive creationism, seed dispersal, species, theology, universal common descent}

Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

_{Robert Shedinger
February 20, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A book widely hailed as proposing a true mechanism for evolution actually reads more like an anti-creationist polemic. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostics, biologists, cosmologists, creationists, Darwin’s Bluff, evidence, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, hagiography, linguists, Luther College, nature, religion, Robert Shedinger, scientific evidence, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antenna, compound eyes, development, entomology, evolution, eyes, Flight, fruit flies, gene expression, human mind, insects, intelligent design, lift, motor neurons, Nature Communications, Queen Mary University London, senses, thrust, wings}

Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems

_{David Coppedge
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmological constant, cosmologists, dark energy, Energy, evolutionary science, gravity, intelligent design, matter, physicists, Rob Sheldon, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, universe}

Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2024

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

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If you are not an ideological materialist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning. Read More ›