Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Christof Koch, Commentary, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William A. Dembski}

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 5, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 4, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, Discovery Institute Press, Jean-Pierre Luminet, scientific revolutions, Stephen Meyer, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe}

Big Bang: While the West Reeled

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 4, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

While the West reeled from America’s stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, biologists, Casey Luskin, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, evidence, evolution, evolutionists, functionality, geologists, human genome, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, Rutgers University, scientists, YouTube channels}

Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Read More ›

Piers Morgan interviews Stephen C. Meyer on Uncensored

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, death, dementia, grief, human being, intelligent design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, philosophers, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

3}

Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades}

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

8}

The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, evolution, evolutionists, function, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, peer-reviewed literature, Rutgers University}

“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

_{Casey Luskin
May 2, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

19}

Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debate, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, evolution, evolutionary history, function, genome, human genome, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, peer-reviewed, persistent scientific errors, pseudogenes, repetitive DNA, RNA, Rutgers University, transposons}

Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Genetics

143}

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, debate, Discovery Institute, evolution, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Long Story Short, misrepresentation, Rutgers University, The Codes of Life, YouTubers}

Debate: Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale, Thursday, May 2

_{David Klinghoffer
May 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: "Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?" Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education

22}

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›