Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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Date
August 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anti-science, Cambridge, Darwinian theory, design intuition, Douglas Axe, Eric Metaxas, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, podcast, Undeniable (book)}

Douglas Axe: We Have an Eye For Detecting Design

_{Science and Culture
August 5, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Either you’re with us and on board on these issues or you are anti-science. That is a very unhelpful position for scientists to be taking.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, evolution, intelligence, intelligent design, Leonhard Euler, materialists, mind, Nancy Pearcey, rationality, Richard Dawkins, San Francisco State University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Provine, zombies}

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Chordata, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, humans, lancelets, Maotianshan Shales, Metaspriggina, phyla, preservation, sampling bias, Science (journal), sea squirts, South China, tunicates, Utah, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›

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Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Day in America, faith and science, free will, John West, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, mind, physiology, Redeeming Science, Sam Harris, sexuality, society, soul, Stony Brook University, The Miracle of Man, theology, Vern Poythress, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary}

Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Asa Gray, biologists, caterpillars, cats, chance, Charles Darwin, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, Isaac Newton, mice, mutations, randomness, theology, Twitter, UC Davis}

A Debate on the “Randomness” of Mutation

_{Paul Nelson
August 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Metaphysics

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The historical wellspring of randomness in evolutionary theory is Darwin’s own insistence on “chance” at the causal foundations of life. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alveoli, arteries, baby, birth, blood, circulatory system, David Galloway, ductus arteriosus, fetus, heart, intelligent design, lungs, physiology, placenta, regulatory control, UK Centre for Intelligent Design, umbilical cord, uterus, valves, ventricle}

The Genius of the Fetal Circulatory System

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 3, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Last week, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. It is difficult to imagine a more profound testimony to design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, miracles, purpose, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, teleology, theism, trees}

On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London. Read More ›