Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, A Civic Biology, ACLU, Alexander Heard, Antonin Scalia, Arkansas, Ball State University, blacklisting, censorship, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Dayton, Denis Noble, education, Eric Hedin, evolution, free speech, Günter Bechly, history, ID 3.0, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Julian Huxley, Michael Behe, monkey law, National Center for Science Education, Neo-Darwinism, npr, Richard Sternberg, Scopes trial, speech codes, Stephen Jay Gould, Tennessee, tenure, The Daily Wire, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University}

A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Ben Goldfarb, brains, captivity, chimpanzees, Chloe Stevens, Darwinian assumptions, humans, intelligence, mice, moral choice, nature, Nautilus, neurons, octopuses, pain, primates, reason, researchers, rodents, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, self-awareness}

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 22, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, biology, Christoph Schönborn, Clarence Darrow, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Raymond J. de Souza, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, National Catholic Register, New York Times, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Scopes trial, Toronto Oratory}

National Catholic Register: Father Hilbert “Would Have Won the Argument with Darrow”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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For Catholics (and others) interested in the subject, Father de Souza has a book recommendation from Discovery Institute Press. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, book reviews, Center for Science and Culture, culture, Dean Kenyon, Discovery Institute, endorsements, Fritz Schaefer, intelligent design, origin of life, origins science, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Jastrow, Robert Shapiro, scientists, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 21, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Today, we bring you the second half of Robert J. Marks’s 2020 interview with Dr. Bradley. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pills, chemical abortions, congressional hearings, drinking water, drugs, EPA, fetal biomass, fetuses, human tissue, Liberty Counsel Action, metabolites, microplastic, mifepristone, sewer system, surgical abortions, wastewater, water contamination, water supply, water systems, water treatment}

Glass of Water? Think Twice

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Our water treatment plants are not equipped to process human tissue nor necessarily to remove metabolized mifepristone (metabolites) used in abortion pills. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemistry, Book of Nature, creatures, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Daniel Reeves, divine design, earth, Emily Reeves, engineering, enzymes, hydrogen, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, plant leaves, plants, Robert Boyle, Sabbatarians, Sabbath, scientists, solar panels, vegetation, water molecule, wisdom}

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, BBC Earth Science, bullfighters, bullfighting, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, drumstick, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, evolutionary orthodoxy, fishing, fist-fighting, Günter Bechly, H. L. Mencken, headlines, Jake Barnes, jealousy, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, Lady Brett Ashley, newspapers, paleontologists, Pamplona, Paris, Princeton University, Robert Cohn, Scopes trial, Spain, The Sun Also Rises, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Date
July 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, body, Carthage, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, Evodius, Gennadius, human mind, human soul, immortality, Kurt Gödel, logical positivism, mathematicians, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, North Africa, philosophy, physicians, Plato, Roman Empire, Rome, The Immortal Mind}

An Ancient Argument for the Soul

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Casey Luskin, DNA, evolutionary junk, function, gene regulation, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, non-coding DNA, non-coding regions, podcast, Richard Sternberg, The Myth of Junk DNA, William Dembski}

Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 19, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, DNA, DNA replication, evolution, history of life, hypothesis, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma, unguided evolution}

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Read More ›