Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, baleen whales, berries, birds, carnivores, cattle, chance, cows, drinking, ecosystem, evolution, fish, food, gills, goats, grasses, grasslands, grazing, herbivores, horses, human intelligence, hummingbirds, intelligent design, krill, livestock, molecules, natural selection, nectar, nuts, prey, seeds, sheep, water, winter, zooplankton}

Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?

_{Eric Hedin
August 30, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aardvarks, biomolecules, cancer, chemical elements, chloroplasts, CHNOPS, DNA, emergence, ententional, Human Genome Project, illness, Irreducible Complexity, John Stuart Mill, materialistic science, neologism, organisms, Reductionism, science of purpose, Terrence Deacon, zebras}

Emergence by Design

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, climate change, David Coppedge, earth, Eric Hedin, gases, geoengineering, intelligent design, light, NASA, sea salps, solar radiation, The Conversation, weather}

Geoengineering on an Intelligently Designed Planet — Let’s Be Careful with That

_{Tova Levengood
August 30, 2023

Environment & Climate, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Scientists are still discovering how many systems, controls, and other aspects of planetary fine-tuning are in place to ensure that we have abundant life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, censorship, COVID-19, embryonic stem cells, evidence-based medicine, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, hydroxychloroquine, ideology, medical establishment, medicine, Oxford University, p-hacking, plausibility, Politics, science-based medicine, scientism, Stanford University, The Lancet, trust, Vaccines, World Professional Association for Transgender Health}

Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Metascience, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, University of Nottingham, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Arthur Eddington, Charles Darwin, computers, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, electron, evolution, Evolution News, In the Beginning, intelligent design, materialists, nuclear power plants, physical forces, protons, quantum mechanics, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent causes, unintelligent forces}

How the Supernatural Entered Science

_{Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I recently came across a nice little video which seems to prove that π = 0. Each step seems reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, God's Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, podcast}

The Return of Natural Theology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Buddhism, Catholic clergy, Christianity, doubt, faith, funerals, Jerusalem Post, jesus, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Judaism, Kannon, King James Bible, Mindar, preachers, rabbis, sermons}

Are Robo-Pastors the Way of the Future?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

They are certainly not the answer to declining attendance and involvement that some have hoped they would be. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, blood-clotting cascade, Casey Luskin, coagulation, common ancestry, common design, Evolution News, evolutionary history, factor X, fibrinogen, gene duplication, genes, hagfish, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, lamprey, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, Russell Doolittle, thrombin}

Has Russell Doolittle Provided an Evolutionary Explanation of the Blood Clotting Cascade?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 28, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Doolittle predicts, from an evolutionary framework, that jawless vertebrates would have a simpler blood clotting cascade than the human system. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animal behavior, Carl Sagan, chimpanzees, confirmation bias, crows, Dogs, emotions, gibberish, humans, marine biologists, puppies, Scientific American, Stephanie Pappas, TikTok, Washington State, wolves}

By Using Floor Buttons, Can Dogs Talk?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The latest fad in the “Talk to the animals” arena appears to be a classic in confirmation bias. Read More ›