Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alvin Plantinga, Barbara Forrest, brain, C.S. Lewis, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Christianity, cosmologists, goodness, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, monkey, National Association of Scholars, Northwestern University, Paul Gross, physical laws, post-truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Steven Pinker, William Graham, woke ideology, worldview}

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
December 11, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Reproductive Science

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I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Against the Tide, atheism, Communism, Eastern Europe, faith and science, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, mathematician, Oxford University, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientists, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, worldview}

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, academia, Against the Tide, atheism, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, ID the Future, john lennox, materialism, mathematician, naturalism, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer}

Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

_{Science and Culture
December 9, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, beauty, Brian Miller, co-option, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, evolution, exaptation, hammer, Howard Berg, indirect evolution, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, serendipity, spring, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Brazil, Burmese amber, Crato Formation, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph model, dragonflies, empirical data, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, larvae, Natural History Museum, paleoentomology, Pegasus, phylogenetic systematics, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, stylets, Tübingen University, Willi Hennig, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, causal agents, Charles Darwin, Christianity, ID the Future, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, podcast, scientific inquiry, William Whewell}

William Whewell: Statesman of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Are there natural limits to biological change? Is the evidence for design in nature well founded? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cells, chromatography, Darwinian processes, Denmark, ENCODE, eukaryotes, Germany, intelligent design, interactome, junk DNA, Nature (journal), organisms, organs, proteins, proteome, The Design Inference, tissues, unknome, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, yeast}

The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

_{David Coppedge
December 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No longer think of proteins as isolated parts in a cell. Think of them as friends networking and participating together in a community. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, dualism, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, illusion, intentionality, internalism, materialism, neuroscience, neuroscientists, physicalism, Riccardo Manzotti}

Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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No matter what terminology is chosen, the materialist project always and necessarily amounts to eliminating the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, causal agents, Christianity, Greco-Roman world, history, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent agents, knowledge, Medieval Europe, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, natural causes, nature, podcast, scientism, scientists, unintelligent causes, universe}

When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, chemical evolution, Clockwork, complexity, consciousness, Elon Musk, fallacy, Harvard University, Hector Zenil, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, Lee Cronin, materialism, methodological naturalism, molecular biology, naturalism, Nature (journal), ontology, Oxford University, phase transition, quantum entanglement, Reductionism, Rice University, saltation, scientific method, theoretical physics, Unbelievable, worldview}

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Origin of Life

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Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›