Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

_{Günter Bechly
January 5, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Ancient Rome, Bible, Christ, Cicero, design intuition, Finding Truth, history of id, intelligence, intelligent design, machinery, mind, nature, universe}

Cicero on Intelligent Design — Sound Familiar?

_{Nancy Pearcey
January 4, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Yesterday was Cicero's birthday. To celebrate, here's my favorite quote from the Roman philosopher. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, California, Darwinism, devolution, Douglas Axe, error correction, evolutionary biologists, fitness landscape, Gaussian curves, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, metaphors, Michael Behe, mount improbable, mousetrap, North Dakota, Paris, phenotypes, PNAS, Richard Dawkins, savannah, Sewall Wright}

Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor

_{David Coppedge
January 4, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, abstract concepts, Andreas Wagner, biological forms, biological information, brain states, electrostatics, evolution, gravity, intelligent design, mainstream scientists, matter, Michael Denton, minds, mutations, Platonic forms, protein machines, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, selection, strong nuclear force, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 4, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Claudine Gay, context, design filter, Design Inference, genocide, Harvard University, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, plagiarism, student conduct, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter

_{David Klinghoffer
January 3, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, COVID-19, disinformation, experts, Francis Collins, gain of function, geneticists, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, morality, pathogens, public health, Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Virology}

Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Many Christians looked to Collins, an Evangelical Christian who was also a brilliant scientist, to bring a greater sense of morality to the research pursuit. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological functions, Casey Luskin, DNA, evolution, gene expression, genome, ID the Future, information suites, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biologists, non-coding DNA, non-protein coding regions, paradigm shift, Short Tandem Repeats, STRs}

Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 3, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, biological systems, cell division, cells, decision-making, gene expression, Gregory T. Reeves, hardware, intelligent design, lipids, neo-Darwinian processes, nucleic acids, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, software}

Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, California, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, molecular biology, molecules, pool (game), preconditions, Religions (journal), Return of the God Hypothesis, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Meyer, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), University of Southern California}

Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, Big Bang, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, death, diversity, Douglas Axe, environmental conditions, enzymes, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, George Ellis, gravity, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, leaves, mass-energy, material mechanisms, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, periodic table of elements, phenotypic plasticity, proteins, quantum physics, Rope Kojonen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, stem cells, Stephen Dilley, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theistic evolution, thermodynamics}

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 2, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›