Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain waves, Delusion, determinism, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Egnor, nerve impulses, neuroscience, Psyche, quantum mechanics, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri, volcano}

Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, bushings, cell membrane, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, FleQ, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, human nature, James Lileks, mathematician, Peggy Noonan, Peter Robinson, philosophers, Ricochet, Science After Babel, Titan, Titanic, Wall Street Journal, World War I}

Shades of Titanic — Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Science and reason were supposed to transform the world for the good instead of soaking it in gore. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abduction, caricature, colleagues, dialogue, Evolution News, friends, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, misinformation, podcast, Socratic method, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson}

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

_{Science and Culture
June 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 23, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, bones, Darwinian, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, handy man, hominin fossils, Homo ergaster, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, Louis Leakey, Lucy, missing links, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropologists, stone tools, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

_{Günter Bechly
June 23, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Antarctic icefish, antifreeze protein, BIO-Complexity, blood, blood viscosity, capillaries, Channichthydiae, fish, freezing, glycoprotein, Gregory Sloop, heart, hemoglobin, hemoglobinless blood, human blood, icefish, marine biology, Montana, oxygen, physicians, Southern Ocean, temperatures, Titanic, vasculature}

Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

_{Emily Reeves
June 22, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, entoprocts, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, phoronids, scalidophorans, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Bayes factor, Center for Science and Culture, citrate, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, eggs, embryos, Escherichia coli, evolution, goal-directedness, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, James Tour, likelihood, lizards, metabolites, Michael Behe, NADH, natural processes, Rice University, Scott Minnich, sea slug, The Edge of Evolution, University of Idaho}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, Canada, Daily Mail, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medicine, neutrality, Ontario, patients, suicide, United Kingdom, United States, well-being}

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›

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Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Andrew McDiarmid, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, ID the Future, intelligence, life, mathematician, philosophers, podcast, Reductionism, Science After Babel, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

_{Science and Culture
June 21, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If scientists thought that life's origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Read More ›