Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cerebral cortex, cochlea, ear, eardrum, electrical signals, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, incus, malleus, middle ear, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, pinna, reptiles, sound waves, Steve Laufmann, tympanic membrane, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body}

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 30, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, beta-lactamase, biologic institute, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Dennis Venema, designer, Douglas Axe, E. coli, Emily Reeves, enzyme, evolution, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, New Scientist, No Free Lunch theorems, preconditions, protein folds, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), Unbelievable, universe}

Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

_{Brian Miller and Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, C.S. Lewis, corruption, culture, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, material processes, materialism, mind, relativism, scientific progress, scientism, The Magician's Twin}

Thus Saith the Science: Recalling the Wisdom of C. S. Lewis on His 125th Birthday

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 29, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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Here, I conclude a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis’s prophetic warnings to us about science and scientism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, body plans, cancer, chimpanzees, diseases, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, function, functionality, gene expression, genes, humans, immune response, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk RNA, lncRNAs, molecular biologists, mRNAs, mutations, natural selection, protein translation, proteins, proteome, repetitive DNA, retrotransposons, ribozymes, species, transcription}

Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, data falsification, deception, Design Inference, gardening, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, parapsychology, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

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What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, Donald R. Prothero, Ernst Haeckel, François Jacob, hagfish, humans, kidneys, mammals, museum, natural selection, vertebrates, vestigial structures}

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 28, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

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Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anomalies, BioEssays, brain function, dogmatism, epigenetic information, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn}

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, economics, eugenics, laissez-faire, Michael Shermer, natural selection, Ross A. Slotten, Thomas Malthus, Wesley J. Smith, World War II}

Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference

_{Michael Flannery
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, carbon, cosmic inflation, Durham University, elements, Goldilocks, information theory, intelligent design, inverse gambler’s fallacy, multiverse, Phillip Goff, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe}

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

_{Eric Hedin
November 27, 2023

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›