Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, animations, articles, books, Discovery Institute, education, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, students, teachers, video, Zoom}

Introducing Online High School Chemistry with an Intelligent Design Perspective

_{Science and Culture
June 20, 2023

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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This chemistry course is unique among other available chemistry courses because it’s connected with Discovery Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Altos Labs, artificial intelligence, Boy Scouts, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, consciousness, disinformation, Jane Studdock, John Donne, Mark Studdock, Marshall McLuhan, memories, nuclear war, OpenAI, Out of the Silent Planet, Paul Kingsnorth, Perelandra, Peter Kreeft, science fiction, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism}

At the Altar of that Hideous Strength

_{Peter Biles
June 19, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, bananas, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, curiosity, evolution, Harvard University, human mind, humans, lice, music, Stephen Jay Gould, Western culture}

Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp

_{David Berlinski
June 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Central Park, children, computer science, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Gregory Chaitin, ID the Future, incompleteness, Kurt Gödel, Leonard Euler, logic, mathematician, Mind Matters, ontological proof, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

_{Science and Culture
June 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, 23andMe, Clive Finlayson, Germany, glue, Homo sapiens, human origins, intelligence, Michael Shermer, Middle Palaeolithic, missing links, Neanderthals, ScienceAlert, University of Tübingen}

Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, DNA, Donald R. Prothero, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, microevolution, mutations, Niles Eldredge, Stephen Jay Gould, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, African Americans, american enterprise institute, Charles Murray, criminality, Darwinism, drugs, evolution, George Gilder, just-so stories, marriage, men, morality, rape, religion, Robert Wright, Rutgers University, Scripture, sexuality, sin, Steven Pinker, The Moral Animal, The New Yorker, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Victorians, violence, women}

The Toxic Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology about Men

_{Nancy Pearcey
June 16, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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As Darwinism is discredited scientifically, we should challenge the way it has shaped the secular code for masculinity. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›