Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

_{Günter Bechly
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, St. George Mivart, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 23, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, brain, Darwinism, evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, ID movement, intelligent design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

_{David Klinghoffer
November 23, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, freedom, government, humans, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, moral relativism, natural world, physical science, podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State}

C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 22, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, egg, English literature, human life, intelligent design, materialism, Mere Christianity, philosophical idealism, poetry, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology, universal evolutionism}

Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 22, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australia, BioEssays, crisis, Darwinian evolution, DNA, genome, Harvard University, John Mattick, junk DNA, Mendelian genetics, Modern Synthesis, Motoo Kimura, paradigm, paradigm shift, proteins, RNAs, Short Tandem Repeats, Sydney, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
November 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
November 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, arson, carbon dioxide, Dead Sea Scrolls, design detection, intelligence, intelligent agency, magnetic field, Michael Egnor, minds, natural forces, Paul Nelson, probability, water, William A. Dembski}

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

_{Eric Hedin
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian reasoning, Big Bang, biological information, biosphere, cells, environmental fitness, evolution, ID the Future, information, information processing, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood, Lydia McGrew, nature, Thomas Bayes}

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first. Read More ›