Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), monkeys, New World monkeys, Oligocene, Paleogene, Platyrrhini, Powerball, rafting monkeys, reptiles, seafaring, South America, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bleeding, blood-clotting cascade, coagulation, Darwin's Black Box, death, factor X, fibrin, fibrinogen, fish, irreducibly complex systems, mammals, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, pregnancy, prothrombin, purifying selection, Russell Doolittle, thrombin, thrombosis, vertebrates}

Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biochemists, Bruce Lipshutz, Dave Farina, ID the Future, James Tour, peptides, podcast, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, researchers, Rice University, science educators, Stephen Meyer, UC Santa Barbara, water, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life: Will Professor Dave Watch?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

If Professor Dave watched to the end, he would have to confront the fact that he deceptively conscripted biochemist Bruce Lipshutz as an expert witness. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, creativity, Iain McGilchrist, lobes, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, personality, preferences, The Matter with Things, vertebrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 24, 2023

Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Bruce Lipshutz, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, early Earth, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, peptides, prebiotic Earth, Rice University, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, water}

Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 23, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood-clotting cascade, Center for Science and Culture, circulatory system, coagulation, Darwin's Black Box, enzymes, evolution, fibrinogen, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Behe, platelets, prothrombin, Retraction Crisis, Russell F. Doolittle, thrombin, thrombosis, unguided processes}

The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, a commenter on the Center for Science and Culture’s Facebook page asked about a paper by the late biochemist Russell F. Doolittle. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, coordinated mutations, Dawkins Test, dependency graph model, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, fossils, glands, humans, inner ear, intelligent design, milk, modules, mutations, peer-reviewed literature, prestin, proteins, rescaled consistency index, species, whales, Winston Ewert}

From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ewert's model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, alt-right, anti-Semitism, axioms, Charles Murray, Compact, conservatism, crime, culture, Democrats, elections, eugenics, evolution, Evolution News, Holocaust, Human Zoos, John West, liberalism, neologisms, Nick Fuentes, policies, Politics, refrigerator, Republicans, Richard Hanania, Social Darwinists, Steve Sailer, United States}

“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

5}

It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Read More ›

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Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bones, cells, coding, data, DNA, evolution, evolutionary theory, femur, foresight, human body, humans, information storage, intelligent design, life, Michael Behe, organs, Secrets of the Cell, teeth, YouTube videos}

New on YouTube: Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information — And the Marvel of Bones

_{Science and Culture
August 22, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The question posed by considering evolutionary theory versus intelligent design is whether a marvel like the femur could have arisen by chance-driven processes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetics, birds, childhood, ears, emotions, evolutionary adaptation, hearing, lyrics, medicine, mental health, mind, music, planets, Plato, pulsars, soul, sound waves, speech, sun, UC Berkeley, YouTube videos}

The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?

_{Eric Hedin
August 22, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them. Read More ›