Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ad hominem, amino acids, Assembly Theory, biologists, Brian Miller, Chemistry World, chess, David Klinghoffer, DNA, ego, James Tour, Lee Cronin, logic, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Philip Ball, protein chains, RNA, Sara Walker, Twitter}

I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

_{Tova Levengood
October 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, atheism, benevolence, Charles Darwin, creation myth, Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, evil, Gaza, genes, genocide, good, Hamas, Holocaust, human nature, humanity, innocents, Israel, Moral Law, morality, music, natural selection, neurotransmitters, Raoul Wallenberg, rape, relativism, selfish genes, slaughter, sterilization, William Shakespeare}

From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, administrators, Africa, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, faculty, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenya, Michael Behe, Phillip E. Johnson, photos, podcast, South Africa, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Travel, United States, University of Eldoret}

Luskin and Miller on the State of ID in Africa

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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The response was inspiring. At the University of Eldoret in Kenya, Luskin and Miller were greeted with no less than a band and a red carpet! Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationism, creator, designer, earth, empirical evidence, Facebook, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, intelligent agents, intelligent design, materialists, religious traditions, Stephen Meyer, Terminology Tuesday, universe}

Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

_{Emily Sandico
October 18, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, After Death, autoscopy, Christianity, death, documentaries, faith and science, Hamlet, health, Heaven, life, love, materialists, medicine, movies, naturalism, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, religion, suicide, theology, William Shakespeare}

After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Medicine

4}

There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, babies, chimpanzees, Cyril Burt, experimentation, human mind, humans, materialism, parents, Smithsonian Magazine}

When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, biochemical systems, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, complexity, David Klinghoffer, Divine Hiddenness argument, divine image, evil, food, free choice, George Ellis, good, humans, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, life after death, lifespan, living cell, Nancey Murphy, nuclear weapons, Templeton Prize, universe}

Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

_{Eric Hedin
October 16, 2023

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

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Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, BioEdge, Canada, Cornell University, human life, kidneys, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, surgery}

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›