Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Carl Linnaeus

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, asteroid, chiral centers, chromatography, enzymes, evaporation, glycine, heating, homochirality, minerals, oligopeptides, organic compounds, peptide bond, polymers, polypeptides, prebiotic world, ribose, RNA}

Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces

_{Carl Linnaeus
August 10, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, chess, evolution, fossils, intelligent design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, meaning, meaninglessness, Norway, On the Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Ball State University, censorship, Daily Wire, Eric Hedin, evolution, faith and science, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Richard Dawkins, scientific method}

Andrew Klavan, Casey Luskin: Displaced Authority and Progressive Censorship

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Klavan smells a rat when famous scientists like Richard Dawkins use displaced authority to make proclamations about science’s relationship with religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, BBC News, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, centipedes, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, cuticle, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, Hallucigenia, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jean-Bernard Caron, Live Science, Middle Cambrian, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge, velvet worms}

In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

_{David Coppedge
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, body, girls, joy, men, movies, Oppenheimer, Public Discourse, transhumanism, women}

Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?

_{Peter Biles
August 8, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, censorship, distortion, editors, encyclopedia, establishment, evolution, inaccuracy, intelligent design, journalists, Larry Sanger, neutrality, Politics, scientism, Twitter, Wikipedia}

Co-Founder Again Blasts Wikipedia’s “Scientistic Point of View,” “So Biased as to Be Twisted”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Yet a lot of people out there still think Wikipedia is meaningfully “vetted” and if you find an inaccuracy, you can “Update it then. That’s the entire point.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, analogy, ATP synthase, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), historical sciences, Hubert Yockey, humans, intelligence, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machines, mutations, natural selection, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, specified information, theology, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chemicals, death, Energy, Eric Anderson, evolution, friction, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, innovation, intelligent design, life, matter, podcast, Steve Laufmann, system of systems, systems engineering, Your Designed Body}

Listen: The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 7, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 7, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, animals, Bible, chatbot, ChatGPT, cosmos, curiosity, DNA, electronic technology, history, humans, imagination, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, natural world, questions}

Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism

_{Eric Hedin
August 7, 2023

Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

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This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 6, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Iain McGilchrist, Justin Brierley, neuroscience, panpsychism, psychiatry, qualia, Scientific American, The Matter with Things, Unbelievable}

Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 6, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism. Read More ›