Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, athens, early Earth, Epicurus, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Journal of the American Chemical Society, molecular biology, probabilities, RNA}

Is Epicurus Smiling?

_{Paul Nelson
January 14, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated. Read More ›

Mount Rushmore

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Author
John Felts

Date
January 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, computer scientist, intelligent design, mathematician, The Design Inference, webinar, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Design Inference 2.0: FREE Webinar with Dembski and Ewert

_{John Felts
January 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Join mathematician William Dembski and computer scientist Winston Ewert as they discuss the significance of their new book and answer your questions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Dave Farina, debates, early Earth, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, predictions, roundtable, self-driving cars}

Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?

_{Casey Luskin
January 12, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australia, bioRxiv, Bryozoa, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, Metazoa, ontogeny, paleontology, Porifera, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans

_{Günter Bechly
January 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, anti-Semitism, canary in the coal mine, Casey Luskin, college campuses, Dave Farina, evolutionists, free speech, Gaza, Hamas, intelligent design, interstate highways, Israel, Jews, Lee Cronin, Martin Luther King Jr., North America, October 7, Palestinians, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, Rice University, science education, Seattle, terrorism, Twitter, X (platform), YouTube videos}

Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

_{David Klinghoffer
January 11, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, debates, Discovery Institute, early Earth, enzymes, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, lipids, nucleotides, polynucleotides, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Professor Dave, Rice University, RNA, roundtable, side chains, specified information, University of Glasgow}

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Casey Luskin
January 11, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, Denison Forum, DNA, Euclid, genius, Hamlet, intelligence, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Mark Turman, nature, protein machines, sciences, William Shakespeare}

Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 10, 2024

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, consciousness, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Ireland, James Tour, neurons, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Richard Dawkins}

Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biological systems, Biomimetics, Bristol University, chicken-and-egg problem, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dartmouth College, Denton, evolution, Evolution (journal), flexibility, heuristic, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Judeo-Christian tradition, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Marcos Eberlin, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, pelvis, pentadactyl design, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, Stephen Jay Gould, strength, Stuart Burgess, Texas, whales, Zombie Science (book)}

Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies — A Report from CELS

_{Jonathan Witt
January 10, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The cherished evolutionary story of whales' “vestigial” pelvic bones joins the growing pile of discredited icons of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, After Death, Alexander T. Englert, Angel Studios, atheism, box office, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, materialists, near-death experiences, ontological proof, relationships, Thomas Aquinas}

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›