Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, biodiversification, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, fossil record, Great Ordovician Biodiversification, paleontology, preservation, radiation, sampling bias, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, undersampling}

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, darkness, disinformation, encyclopedia, headline, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, online encyclopedia, scientism, Wikipedia}

Sanger Fought Disinformation on Intelligent Design “Tooth and Nail” — But Disinformation Won

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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"I fought ... tooth and nail on the question whether Wikipedia articles should dismiss [ID] and other nonstandard scientific theories without a hearing." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biological information, genes, illusion, information, intelligence, Marcello Barbieri, meaning, molecular biology, physicalism, University of Ferrara}

Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 10, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›

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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

8}

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

3}

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

3}

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 ›