Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Carl Woese, conservation of function, function, functional synonyms, genes, Genome Biology, genomes, last bacterial common ancestor, orthodoxy, Tree of Life}

Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

_{Paul Nelson
August 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, electrons, fluid flow, Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion, mathematician, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, square root, zero}

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

_{Eric Hedin
August 15, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

9}

René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, USSR, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

6}

The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, alpha male, Baylor University, Bruce Gordon, cosmological constant, cosmos, Francis Crick, insanity, intelligent design, John Barrow, John Horgan, Nobel laureates, Paul Davies, Peter Atkins, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Texas, The Nature of Nature, William A. Dembski}

John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

_{Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

3}

“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Duquesne University, education, educators, Enlightenment, faith and science, Franciscan University, God's Grandeur, Greek philosophers, integration, intelligent design, jesus, John Henry Newman, Logan Gage, Roman Catholic, schools, scientific materialism, Sophia Institute Press}

Teaching Intelligent Design to Revitalize Catholic Education

_{Brian Miller
August 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Physics, Science Education

6}

Many Christian schools teach the same curriculum that secular schools do with some added religious flavoring. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Marcus, COVID-19, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, Ivan Oransky, John Ioannidis, Matt Ridley, neuroscientists, Retraction Watch, scandal, science, Stanford University, The Guardian, Theo Baker, Times Higher Education}

Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2023

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Read More ›

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Date
August 12, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Casey Luskin, Christianity, conflict myth, Cosmos (series), Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, fact check, faith and science, Giordano Bruno, ID the Future, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, misinformation, monotheism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, revisionist history, Roman Catholic, science and religion, the narrative}

Is the Cosmos One Big Happy Accident?

_{Science and Culture
August 12, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science

3}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards discusses distortions and outright falsehoods presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, dairy cows, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness}

Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, books, culture, faith and science, Faith Versus Fact, Jerry Coyne, New Atheists, religion, religious tradition, René Girard, Sam Harris, The God Delusion}

After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

2}

Richard Dawkins says he finds it “depressing” that people now think he’s “right-wing,” even a “right-wing extremist,” because he’s anti-woke. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, biodiversification, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, fossil record, Great Ordovician Biodiversification, paleontology, preservation, radiation, sampling bias, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, undersampling}

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›