Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, biologist, Casey Luskin, evolution, eyes, genes, information, intelligent design, metazoans, Nature Communications, proteins, protists, single-celled organisms}

A Question on New Genes and Animal Origins

_{Brian Miller
May 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A correspondent wrote to us with an interesting question about evolution that arose in a discussion he had with a biologist. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Kelley J. Unger

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Education
Tagged
, animation, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, editing, education, educators, evolution, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, life forms, Long Story Short, Michael Behe, professors, Secrets of the Cell, Steve Laufmann, video, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos}

Make an Impact. Become a Producer!

_{Kelley J. Unger
May 15, 2024

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Education

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People are looking to the CSC to provide compelling, easy-to-understand information on subjects overrun by Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, birds, causality, diabetes, dispositionalism, hemoglobin, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, materialistic science, medicine, Michael Behe, migration, nature, navigation, powers, realism, science of purpose, scientific inquiry, Thomas Aquinas, UV light, water}

Powers Ontology: Overcoming the Limits of Reductionist Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Reductionism is a method for understanding something by minimizing it to a very simple level that can be restricted to abstract language. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, asteroids, brains, consciousness, evolution, genes, mind, Murchison meteorite, philosophers, Roger Penrose, scientists, solar system}

Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 14, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, bacteria, cofactors, copper, early Earth, Earth’s crust, enzymes, evolution, habitability, hemoglobin, intelligent design, iron ore, just-so stories, life, metals, microbes, minerals, photosynthesis}

Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

_{Eric Hedin
May 14, 2024

Biochemistry, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Friedmann, Big Bang, Catholic clergy, Discovery Institute Press, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, ID the Future, podcast, science and faith, scientists, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, truth}

Luminet: The Real Heroes of the Big Bang Revolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 13, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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The discovery that the universe had a beginning was one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the last century. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, dog, Dr. Dan, embryogenesis, embryonic stem cells, enzymes, evolution, function, genome, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, methylation, mouse, Nature (journal), non-coding RNAs, peer-reviewed literature, repetitive elements, Rutgers University, Science (journal), transposable elements}

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

_{Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

22}

On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, geophysics, helium, hydrogen, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, materialists, nitrogen, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, Wikipedia}

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

_{Casey Luskin
May 12, 2024

Astronomy, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›