Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, judgment, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
November 20, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary mechanisms, functional sequences, functionality, functions, intelligent design, isolation, Jupiter, laws of nature, No Free Lunch theorems, planets, protein evolution, proteins, rarity, Rope Kojonen, sequence space, spacecraft, stars, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

_{Brian Miller
November 20, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, climate change, entertainment, evolution, high school, human beings, intelligent activity, intelligent design, materialists, mimesis, music, non-fiction, Patrick T. Brown, René Girard, The Free Press, thin desire}

Mimesis and Identifying the Intelligent Designer

_{Ann Gauger
November 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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We are social creatures, meant to be together. That means social pressure is real and can be intense. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 19, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, amino acids, bacterial cells, Big Bang, coding, DNA, Energy, Foresight (book), function, heredity, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Marcos Eberlin, matter, mimesis, modern cells, philosophers, proteins, René Girard, ribosomes, RNA, universe}

Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

_{Ann Gauger
November 19, 2023

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

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Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfred Wegener, Anthony Fauci, arXiv, CDC, Continental Drift, firefighters, geologists, government, Ignaz Semmelweis, mental health, microbes, mimesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, nurses, Pangaea, philosophers, police, propaganda, René Girard, Vaccines}

Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

_{Ann Gauger
November 18, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aluminum, batteries, COSM 2023, electronics, entrepreneurs, George Gilder, graphene, James Tour, materials science, mice, modernity, Nobel Prize, plastic, plastics, Rice University, spinal cord}

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

_{Casey Luskin
November 17, 2023

Medicine, Physical Sciences

5}

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagella, biological systems, Brown University, complexity, Conservation of Information, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian pathways, Douglas Axe, epilogue, evolution, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural selection, No Free Lunch, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference}

An Argument from Ignorance?

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, behavior, Christ, coercion, communication, conformity, education, Facebook, human person, industry, Instagram, Leviticus, media, medicine, military, mimesis, philosophers, power, prestige, propaganda, religion, René Girard, science, scientific community, social media, thin desire, TikTok, Twitter, whistleblowers}

Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis

_{Ann Gauger
November 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

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French philosopher René Girard discovered something new, new but very old, about human behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, coccolithophores, Darwin's Dilemma, dinoflagellates, Ernst Haeckel, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, academia, Darwinists, education, evolution, freedom, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, mathematician, podcast, randomness, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Technology

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Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Read More ›