Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, American Kennel Club, animal abuse, animal agriculture, animal husbandry, animal neglect, animal products, animal rights, animal sexual assault, animal welfare, animals, companions, cruelty, dog breeding, fauna, fishing, fur, hunting, IP28, leather, legal equality, meat, Oregon, people, progressivism}

Goodbye, Burger: Oregon Law Would Ban Animal Agriculture, Plus Fishing and Hunting

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2026

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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In an era where many among us “feel” more than “think,” the potential for such radical proposals becoming law cannot be dismissed out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, Arabidopsis, circuits, co-evolution, common ancestor, convergent evolution, Darwin on Trial, Drosophila, evolution, hair trigger, immune response, immune systems, intelligent design, kingdoms, logic, natural selection, nematode, NLR-o-gram, pathogens, Phillip Johnson, plants, proteins, robustness, Science (journal)}

For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering

_{David Coppedge
January 30, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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How clever of separate kingdoms of organisms to have figured all this out independently! Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, credulity, evidence, evolution, intelligent design, mythology, narratives, origin of life, reality, Research, stories, Theos Theory, YouTube channels}

Origin of Life: When Favorite Narratives Unravel

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2026

Evolution, Origin of Life

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As the excellent YouTube channel Theos Theory reminds us, stories of the origin of life rely more on audience credulity than on evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, atheism, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Avebury, Bishop of Exeter, Book of Job, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Corsica, Darwinism, Dennis Harding, False Messiah, Gregory the Great, hochvart, Hugh Trevor-Roper, James Henry Froude, John Aubrey, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kellow Chesney, Lisbon earthquake, London, Middle High German, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Peace of Augsburg, Pentre Ifan, Poor Henry, practical atheists, Ring of Brodgar, secularization, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stonehenge, symmetry thesis, The Nemesis of Faith, The Victorian Underworld, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Voltaire}

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Adrian Smith, Ant Lab, Arthropoda, collophore, convergent evolution, Cyrille D’Haese, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, deserts, dry deserts, engineers, evolution, evolutionists, fungus, furcula, Günter Bechly, gymnasts, habitats, Harvard University, ice deserts, intelligent design, Mark Stevens, Mollusca, mouthparts, rotting wood, science fair, sea slugs, Spain, springtails, stasis, Subterranean Biology, The Conversation, Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society}

More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

_{David Coppedge
January 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, building blocks, designed reality, finite universe, ID the Future, improbability, information, irreducible intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, materialist process, mathematicians, matter, philosophers, podcast, probability amplifier, selection process, William Dembski}

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Aquinas and Evolution, Aristotle, Catholic evolutionism, Catholic scientists, Catholicism and Evolution, Christianity, Congregation of the Index, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Darwinism, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, First Things, Humani Generis, Kenneth W. Kemp, Knowledge and Evolution, neo-Platonism, Plato, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius IX, Raffaello Caverni, St. George Jackson Mivart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Barr, Steve Greene, Syllabus Errorum, The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, Zoonomia}

Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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These publications are far from telling, in Barr’s words, “the full story of how the Church did react to the theory of evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, engineering, genes, genetic mutations, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA}

Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Read More ›

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Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, Ana Silva, bioRxiv, cell cleavage, chaetae, clades, cladogenesis, common ancestor, Current Biology, deuterostomes, embryologists, evolution, larval types, Max Telford, metazoans, paleontology, phyla, pre-publication MS, segmentation, shells, spiral cleavage, spiral pattern, Spiralia, superclade, synapomorphies, taxonomic category, textbooks, University College London, Waldemar Schleip, zoology}

Giving Up on the Branching Order of Spiralia: More Findings from Max Telford’s Group

_{Science & Culture
January 27, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

3}

The open agnosticism in this new MS is a short step away from throwing in the towel entirely, at an even more radical level. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, DNA, faith and science, Francis Crick, history of science, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watson, Latin, physicists, pleasure, Presbyterians, Psalms, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theology}

Watch: Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, at the Doors of the Cavendish Lab

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science

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Even these atheist scientists recognized that beauty was a marker that pointed to truth in their field, in which they too could take pleasure. Read More ›