Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

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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 Levengood

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 Levengood
November 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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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

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

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, cave walls, chronology, erosion, fossils, geochemistry, hominins, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, hype, IFL Science, intelligence, Journal of Human Evolution, Lee Berger, media, micromorphology, Netflix, paleoanthropologists, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, spectroscopy, taphonomy, tools}

Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Chemistry
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, action potentials, Anton Zeilinger, atheism, brain states, cellular metabolism, chance, determinism, evidence, fluid dynamics, free will, government, Jerry Coyne, justice, logic, love, marriage, meat robot, molecules, morality, neuroscience, relationships, truth}

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

_{Michael Egnor
November 14, 2023

Bioethics, Chemistry, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, bits, cells, Charles Darwin, complex systems, consciousness, Darwin's Black Box, decision, evolution, humans, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Behe, microscopes, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Secrets of the Cell}

Secrets of the Cell — Behind the Scenes with Michael Behe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 14, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Imagine if Charles Darwin could have peered into one of today’s high-powered microscopes and seen the complexity and function in even the simplest living cells. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Andreas Wagner, Casey Luskin, Dan Tawfik, Emily Reeves, empirical evidence, evolution, Evolution News, fitness landscapes, function, intelligent design, KEBDA, mutations, natural laws, natural processes, preconditions, proteins, Religions (journal), Research, Rope Kojonen, sequence space, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), undirected process, Weizmann Institute}

To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle

_{Brian Miller
November 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Theologian Rope Kojonen claims that God designed the laws of nature, which then gave rise to “fine-tuned” preconditions and smooth fitness landscapes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 13, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, central dogma, Current Biology, diet, DNA, EMBO Reports, epigenetics, evolution, exercise, Frankenstein, genome, intelligent design, John Innes Centre, lifestyle, mind, mood, mutations, pianist, piano, RNA, tempo, University of Georgia, zebra, zebra finch, zebrafish}

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

_{David Coppedge
November 13, 2023

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
November 12, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assumptions, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, cosmos, Daniel Dennett, earth, Jay Richards, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, purposelessness, science, Science Uprising, scientific materialism}

Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

_{Emily Sandico
November 12, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Read More ›