Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, biology, cancer, Evolution News, faith and science, humans, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, mechanism, mechanistic view, medical school, molecular level, oncologists, organisms, physical law, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, Thomistic philosophy}

Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 18, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, detritus, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, habituation, information, labyrinth, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Matthew Sims, mazes, memory, navigation, nuclei, Physarum polycephalum, plasmodium, railway network, slime mold, Slime Mould and Philosophy, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trails}

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, basal disk, Campylobacter jejuni, domain swapping, evolution, fact check, flagellar system, flagellum, folding, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, Morgan Beeby, PflC proteins, propellers, proteases, proteins, swimming, transitions, undirected processes}

Fact Check: Has a Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Powered-Up Propellers”?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Westad

Date
July 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Science Education
Tagged
, academic excellence, biology, Cambrian Explosion, chemistry, college, Discovery Institute Academy, DNA, education, enzyme reactions, exams, Florida, fossil record, homeschooling, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Irreducible Complexity, kitchen table, quizzes, readings, registration, science courses, students, syllabus, teachers, titration, videos, Washington State, Zoom}

Rigorous and Design‑Focused: Discovery Institute’s Homeschool High-School Science Courses

_{Brian Westad
July 16, 2025

Biology, Chemistry, Science Education

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Give your high‑schooler a course that sparks curiosity today and prepares them for the science of tomorrow. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 16, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, BioCosmos, biomolecules, building blocks, C. James, cells, diffusion, diffusion coefficient, dipeptide, discovery time, half-life, intelligent agent, intelligent design, James Tour, M. C. Parker, nucleotides, origin of life, peptide bond, physics, proteins, Rice University, RNA, statistical decay theory, thermodynamics, water}

New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Brian Miller
July 16, 2025

Biochemistry, Origin of Life

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Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, origin of life, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Walter Bradley on the Origin of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, fungus colony, humans, intelligence, Japan, learning, machine cognition, machines, memory, metacognition, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, panpsychism, Phanerochaete velutina, rescue dogs, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism, Yu Fukasawa}

Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, ACLU, Bible, Bolton Davidheiser, Casey Luskin, censorship, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Dayton, Democrats, Dudley Field Malone, Edward Larson, freedom, fundamentalists, Haeckel’s embryos, history, Holocaust, Horatio Hockett Newman, Human Zoos, Icons of Evolution, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Wells, March of Man, Maynard Metcalf, Phillip E. Johnson, Scopes trial, Social Darwinism, Summer for the Gods, Supreme Court, Teaching Company, The Daily Wire, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan, Zombie Science}

Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

_{David Coppedge
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype. Read More ›

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Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After (book), aneurysm, brain, Bruce Greyson, hypercarbia, hypoxia, Leeds Beckett University, Marilyn A. Mendoza, medical literature, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, O’Leary, Pam Reynolds, Phoenix, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Steve Taylor, suicide, surgery, The Immortal Mind, Tulane University, University of Virginia, veridical}

To Skeptics, Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

_{Science and Culture
July 14, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arts Education Policy Review, autism, Bernhard Fink, brain, brain activity, break dancing, Charleston, Constantina Theofanopoulou, dance movement therapy, dancers, dancing, forethought, foxtrot, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, Kitsap Kats, line dancing, materialism, music, natural selection, neural signaling, neuroplasticity, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Sadye Paez, Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, Teresa Borowski, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Forman
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›