Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, "poor design", Darwinian evolution, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, medicine, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

_{Science and Culture
July 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Laufmann and Glicksman point to essential systems within systems within systems — irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, circular reasoning, creationism, creationists, dating, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gregory Retallack, hype, India, interpretation, paleomagnetography, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, Precambrian, radiometric dating, rocks, South Australia, stratigraphy, University of Florida, University of Oregon, zircon}

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

_{Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023

Geology, Paleontology

6}

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bobcats, capsids, Colorado, deer, education, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, men, mice, molecules, nature, qualia, Quanta, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Glorious — My First Summer Seminar on ID

_{Emily Sandico
July 6, 2023

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

For unnumbered hours we basked in the shared light of the pursuit of truth through good science and sound philosophy. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bacterial cells, chloroquine, confirmation bias, crickets, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, Google, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, malaria, Michael Behe, NtrC, Professor Dave Explains, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, science educators, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

My “Debate” with Professor Dave

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

On Twitter, Dr. McLatchie took some time to engage in an exchange with Farina, which reflects the quality of the latter’s thinking, such as it is. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ChatGPT, coffee, complex specified information, creativity, decoherence, Energy, freedom, function, heat, humans, information, intelligent design, kinetic energy, knowledge, Law of Conservation of Information, life, luck, meaning, mind, nature, physical objects, printing press, quantum mechanics, rigged game, Second Law of Thermodynamics, William A. Dembski}

Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
July 6, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, engineers, heritability, Howard Glicksman, human body, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, random mutation, Steve Laufmann, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

_{Science and Culture
July 5, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

1}

“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 5, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, accident, atheism, Bill Nye, creator, creatures, earth, environmentalism, grandchildren, intelligent design, The Guardian, The Privileged Planet, universe}

William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet

_{Günter Bechly
July 5, 2023

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

3}

Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
July 5, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brian Miller, Christianity, Contact, DNA, ET enlightenment, extraterrestrials, Fermi’s Paradox, geochemical anomalies, James Webb Space Telescope, media, Mediocrity Principle, Michael Keas, Michigan, physicists, SETI, UFOs, Unbelievable}

The Search for ET Artifacts Misses the Elephant

_{Jonathan Witt
July 5, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

10}

Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is fully operational, there is renewed chatter about the possibility of discovering extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animal life, animals, Becket Cook, Bible, communication, Darwinism, David Berlinski, discontinuity, Dogs, humans, Jesuits, Ovid, pets, Science After Babel}

With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

2}

Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.” Read More ›