Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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Date
February 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, intelligence, pheromones, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, wasps}

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

_{Science and Culture
February 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, BioEssays, blueprint, Brian Miller, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), computers, Denis Noble, Dennis Venema, diseases, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolution, factory, genes, genomes, How Life Works, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, junk DNA, machines, Nature (journal), organisms, paradigm shift, Philip Ball, proteins, purpose, RNA genes, traits, transformers}

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, Avalon explosion, Cambrian phyla, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, evidence for evolution, fact check, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), India, junk science, microbial mats, Precambrian, radiometric dating, Spriggina, Tribrachidium, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
February 16, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, apoptosis, Charles Darwin, circulation, Current Biology, digestion, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, feedback control, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, jointed appendages, natural selection, neurons, Nobel Prize, odors, PLOS Biology, saccades, Stephen Crane, timing}

Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

_{David Coppedge
February 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Paul D. MacLean, triune brain theory, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›