Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, Donald R. Prothero, Ernst Haeckel, François Jacob, hagfish, humans, kidneys, mammals, museum, natural selection, vertebrates, vestigial structures}

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 28, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anomalies, BioEssays, brain function, dogmatism, epigenetic information, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn}

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, economics, eugenics, laissez-faire, Michael Shermer, natural selection, Ross A. Slotten, Thomas Malthus, Wesley J. Smith, World War II}

Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference

_{Michael Flannery
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, carbon, cosmic inflation, Durham University, elements, Goldilocks, information theory, intelligent design, inverse gambler’s fallacy, multiverse, Phillip Goff, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe}

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

_{Eric Hedin
November 27, 2023

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
John Felts

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, column water vapor, Discover Magazine, Facebook, Forrest Mims III, livestream, Maverick Scientist, NASA, NOAA, ozone layer, Radio Shack, Smithsonian Institution, Texas, Texas A&M University, webinar}

Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims

_{John Felts
November 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arrow, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 26, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, bees, behavior, chimpanzees, consciousness, crows, elephants, emotion, exothermic life, human consciousness, humans, insects, joy, Lars Chittka, octopuses, pain, Scientific American, sentience, Thomas Nagel}

What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 25, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
November 25, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

_{Günter Bechly
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›