Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, human origins, ID the Future, intellectual history, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast}

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

_{Science and Culture
September 18, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Americas, Asia, bread, cooking, corn, domestication, Europe, evolution, Fire-Maker, food production, fruit, Harvard University, human brain, maize, Michael Denton, nuts, pancakes, planetary fine-tuning, pulses, rice, Richard Wrangham, roots, salt, seed dispersal, wheat}

For Our Daily Bread, Thank Planetary Fine-Tuning

_{Eric Hedin
September 18, 2023

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

The existence of progenitor food crops (edible plants) on Earth was a necessary starting point for the availability of our food. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, adultery, Christianity, Genesis, Greco-Roman world, husbands, image of God, marriage, men, paganism, prostitutes, Rodney Stark, Romans, Rome, salvation, slaves, wives, women}

Women and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 18, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

In this historical context, the Christian view of marriage was nothing short of revolutionary. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abolitionists, Arabs, China, Christianity, Civil War, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, Gregory of Nyssa, image of God, Native Americans, Oberlin College, Rodney Stark, slavery, United States}

Slavery and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 16, 2023

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amsterdam, atheism, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, endowed by their creator, England, equal rights, equality, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Britain, Houston Christian University, human nature, image of God, imago Dei, Judaism, Museum of the Bible, Puritans, Richard Rorty, struggle for existence, Westerners}

Human Rights and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 16, 2023

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 15, 2023

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient world, church, cities, civilization, creator, earth, families, female, first couple, Genesis, government, Houston Christian University, humans, image of God, male, music, Nancy Pearcey, nations, school, sciences, stewardship}

The Meaning of the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 15, 2023

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

In the ancient world, it was rulers and emperors who were sometimes said to be “the image of God.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 15, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Argentina, Bill Nye, Brazil, cladogram, common ancestry, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, David Attenborough, flying reptiles, Greenland, Popular Science, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, Scotland, Triassic period, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
September 15, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

20}

Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, naturalistic philosophy, proteins, replication fidelity, ribonucleotides, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bayesian reasoning, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, chess, Erik Larson, Google Bard, gun, inference to the best explanation, musicians, Noam Chomsky, piano, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence

_{William A. Dembski
September 14, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind

14}

The analogy with chess is apt — computers play chess but in ways different from us by being able to brute force their way through millions more positions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Andrew McDiarmid, archetype, artificial intelligence, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, copy, cosmic comprehensibility, Discovery Institute, image, Johannes Kepler, materialists, Melissa Cain Travis, multiverse, natural theology, Paul Davies, rationality, Roger Penrose, Thinking God’s Thoughts, transhumanism}

Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 13, 2023

Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

2}

Genuine human rationality would not exist if a naturalistic account of the human mind were correct. Read More ›