Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, creator, history, human mind, humans, image of God, intelligent design, intelligent designer, lawgiver, logos, Museum of the Bible, natural world, Rodney Stark}

Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 23, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, David Klinghoffer, debates, dragon, ENCODE, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Poland, Richard Sternberg}

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, Dinaledi Chamber, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, La Trobe University, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, micromorphology, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abortion, Aristotle, babies, children, Christianity, Cicero, clergy, image of God, infanticide, infants, pagans, parents, persons, Plato, Roman Empire}

Image of God: Are Children Persons?

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 21, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Today we take it for granted that children are special beings who require special care and attention. But it was not always so. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, Mistaken Point, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Case Western Reserve University, Change Tan, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, genes, ID the Future, medical engineering, Nature (journal), Rob Stadler, Robert Stadler, single-celled organism, The Stairway to Life, unguided processes}

The Simple Life: Abiogenesis Gets Another Reality Check

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When it comes to biological life, even the simplest single-celled organism is an astonishingly complex multi-part system. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, fire, fossil record, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Science Daily, spears, University of Liverpool}

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

_{Casey Luskin
September 20, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Amazon, Angus Menuge, brain, computer science, consciousness, Discovery Institute Press, endorsements, information theory, materialism, materialists, mind, mind-brain problem, Minding the Brain, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II}

Latest from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain Is an Amazon #1 New Release

_{David Klinghoffer
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Congratulations to the editors, Angus Menuge, Brian Krouse, and Robert J. Marks! Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, Directed panspermia, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, interstellar dust, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, self-repliation, Strong Anthropic Principle, testability, thermodynamics, Weak Anthropic Principle}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›