Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfred Wegener, Anthony Fauci, arXiv, CDC, Continental Drift, firefighters, geologists, government, Ignaz Semmelweis, mental health, microbes, mimesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, nurses, Pangaea, philosophers, police, propaganda, René Girard, Vaccines}

Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

_{Ann Gauger
November 18, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aluminum, batteries, COSM 2023, electronics, entrepreneurs, George Gilder, graphene, James Tour, materials science, mice, modernity, Nobel Prize, plastic, plastics, Rice University, spinal cord}

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

_{Casey Luskin
November 17, 2023

Medicine, Physical Sciences

5}

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagella, biological systems, Brown University, complexity, Conservation of Information, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian pathways, Douglas Axe, epilogue, evolution, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural selection, No Free Lunch, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference}

An Argument from Ignorance?

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, behavior, Christ, coercion, communication, conformity, education, Facebook, human person, industry, Instagram, Leviticus, media, medicine, military, mimesis, philosophers, power, prestige, propaganda, religion, René Girard, science, scientific community, social media, thin desire, TikTok, Twitter, whistleblowers}

Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis

_{Ann Gauger
November 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

6}

French philosopher René Girard discovered something new, new but very old, about human behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, coccolithophores, Darwin's Dilemma, dinoflagellates, Ernst Haeckel, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

9}

Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, academia, Darwinists, education, evolution, freedom, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, mathematician, podcast, randomness, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Technology

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Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, culture, evolution, fire, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, interbreeding, Journal of Human Evolution, last common ancestor, Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals, PLOS ONE, Portugal, Science Alert, stereotypes, stone tools, University of Trento}

Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

_{Casey Luskin
November 16, 2023

Archaeology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Bill Gates, chance, charity, events, height, intelligent design, logic, nationality, natural processes, natural selection, patterns, Princeton University, probability, proteins, Robert J. Marks II, Sergiu Klainerman, snowflake, The Design Inference, water molecules, weight, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics; New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The expanded edition represents the culmination of decades of thought. Esteemed Princeton University mathematician Sergiu Klainerman has welcomed the book. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, events, faculty, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, MIT, roundtable}

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

_{Tova Forman
November 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beak shape, Charles Darwin, Claremont Review of Books, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, evolution, intelligent design, On the Origin of Species, species, Stephen Meyer, Yale University}

Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism

_{Emily Sandico
November 15, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

2}

Writes Professor Gelernter, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain." Read More ›