Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Europe, hospitals, humanity, Israel, pandemic, public health, skeptics, technocracy, The Lancet, World Health Organization}

Dehumanizing Skeptics of the “International Order”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The people’s loss of “belief” was the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

5}

This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, J.P. Moreland, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Quarterly Review of Biology}

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

_{David Coppedge
June 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, atheism, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, common descent, Darwin Day, eugenics, evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, J.B.S. Haldane, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, love, meaning, natural selection, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, United States, value}

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

_{William A. Dembski
June 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, digital code, discoveries, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, life, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, universe, worldview}

Stephen Meyer and Piers Morgan: Design, Atheism, and God

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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There’s a major disconnect between the messaging of popular atheists like Richard Dawkins and reality. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, Brian Miller, Christianity, Douglas Axe, Ernst Haeckel, faith and science, Father Michael Chaberek, Germany, God Hypothesis, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, Napoleon, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Poland, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet}

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

8}

Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Bible, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinism, Epicurus, Higher Criticism, Lawrence Krauss, Mircea Eliade, Old Testament, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Stonehenge, Victorian England}

Why Has Darwin Been Believed?

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

17}

By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, accidents, Caltech, cells, complexity, David Coppedge, eternity, Hurricanes, information, insects, nature, organisms}

Deconstructing Belief in Evolution

_{Eric Hedin
June 9, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Reproductive Science

6}

A young biochemist suggested to me that hurricanes constitute an observable example of a natural artifact exhibiting complexity. Read More ›