Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, apoptosis, centrioles, checkpoints, chromosomes, conservation, DNA, error correction, evolution, genetic information, histones, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, junk DNA, mitosis, Northeastern University, organelles, RNA, Rube Goldberg device, University of Basel, zebras}

In Life, Checkpoints and Error Correction Defy Darwinian Explanations

_{David Coppedge
August 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Living cells employ forward-thinking and backward-thinking strategies. Both strategies require planning outside the immediate situation. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, aliens, artificial intelligence, Biola University, consciousness, culture, dating, extraterrestrial life, friendship, Internet, J.P. Moreland, marriage, philosophy of mind, Sean McDowell, sexuality, William Lane Craig, worship}

Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence

_{Peter Biles
August 1, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, faith and science, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialists, Matti Leisola, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, scientific discoveries}

How Modern Science Strengthens Claims of Theism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 1, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

1}

Jonathan Witt reviews discoveries of the last century that are causing even committed materialists to question or reject the neo-Darwinian explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, ant colony, artificial intelligence, behaviors, calculus, David Berlinski, foraging, humans, intelligent design, navigation, Neural Networks, nucleic acids, optimization, pheromones, proteins, Science After Babel, Traveling Salesman Problem}

Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?

_{Eric Cassell
August 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

While humans invented algorithms only within the last century, enabling the development of AI, animals exhibit behavioral algorithms that long predate humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, molecular clock, Neoproterozoic Era, New York Times, Norway, Nunavut, Oxford University, precambrian fossils, Precambrian strata, Ross P. Anderson, Russia, Siberia, Stephen Meyer, Svalbard, taphonomy}

Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University}

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cheating, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, debates, James Tour, junk science, Lee Cronin, origin of life, Professor Dave Explains, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer}

“Suspect Science”: Stephen Meyer and James Tour Bring Clarity on the Origin of Life

_{David Klinghoffer
July 31, 2023

Origin of Life

2}

Helpfully, Meyer stops Tour again and again and asks for clarification of scientific terms and concepts that might not be obvious to all viewers. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Animal Algorithms, astrobiology, atheism, Brian Koberlein, convergent evolution, crop circles, design filter, Eric Cassell, evolution, hexagons, intelligent design, intuition, PLOS Biology, pulsars, radio signals, Return of the God Hypothesis, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Conversation, UAPs, UC Berkeley, UFOlogy, UFOs, unidentified anomalous phenomena, Utah}

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

_{David Coppedge
July 31, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, caterpillars, consciousness, emergence, empathy, evolutionary theory, explanations, Genesis, intelligence, materialism, mind, monotheism, promissory materialism, religion, RNA, robotics}

In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›

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Date
July 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Cambridge, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eric Metaxas, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Politics, science, Undeniable (book), United Kingdom}

Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

_{Science and Culture
July 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

“The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise?” Read More ›