Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alaska, copper, COVID-19, Earth’s surface, electricity, electronic technology, insulators, intelligent design, isolation, logic gates, materials, nature, oxygen, radios, rubber, semiconductors, silicon, television, voltage, Zoom}

Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature

_{Eric Hedin
October 10, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ABC News, Casey Luskin, cave art, fire, Homo naledi, human origins, ID the Future, intelligence, Lee Berger, Marketing, Netflix, podcast, preprints}

Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 9, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 9, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, ATP, barnacles, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwin's Black Box, ejaculatory reflex, evolution, fertilization, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jackson Wheat, Michael Behe, microtubules, middle piece, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nick Matzke, purifying selection, roundworm, sperm cells, sperm flagellum}

How NOT to Argue Against Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 9, 2023

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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This roundworm produces non-flagellated sperm, though these sperm cells are amoeboid, meaning that they move by extending and retracting protrusions. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 8, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, China, City Journal, COVID-19, First Amendment, free speech, gain-of-function research, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Mind Matters, Patrick Brown, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan}

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 8, 2023

Environment & Climate, Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson}

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, aerodynamics, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, flapping, Flight, forelimb, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, Liaoning, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abominable mystery, algae, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, conifers, Darwinian gradualism, ferns, flowering plants, gymnosperms, lycophytes, miracles, morphospace, mosses, Nature Plants, Philip C. J. Donoghue, pine tree, punctuated equilibria, The Conversation, trilobites, University of Bristol, vascular plants}

Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

_{David Coppedge
October 5, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, Christopher Hitchens, cosmos, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, evolution, human condition, human nature, humans, military history, mind, nobility, progress, Romans, Science After Babel, Socrates in the City, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, universe, war, wisdom}

Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Technology

2}

Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, faith and science, Frank Turek, intelligent design, natural world, origins, scientists, YouTube videos}

Turek: “Science Doesn’t Say Anything; Scientists Do”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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When someone tells you to “Follow the science,” there’s a good chance you’re being hustled. You should ask “Which science?” Read More ›