Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, freedom, government, humans, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, natural world, physical science, podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy}

C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 22, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, egg, English literature, human life, intelligent design, materialism, Mere Christianity, poetry, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology}

Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 22, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australia, BioEssays, crisis, Darwinian evolution, DNA, genome, Harvard University, John Mattick, junk DNA, Mendelian genetics, Modern Synthesis, paradigm, paradigm shift, proteins, RNAs, Short Tandem Repeats, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
November 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
November 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, carbon dioxide, design detection, intelligence, intelligent agency, magnetic field, Michael Egnor, minds, natural forces, Paul Nelson, probability, water, William A. Dembski}

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

_{Eric Hedin
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian reasoning, Big Bang, biological information, biosphere, cells, environmental fitness, evolution, ID the Future, information, information processing, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood, Lydia McGrew, nature, Thomas Bayes}

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cheating, DNA replication, energy production, hearts, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, logic, Mars, murder, natural causes, pattern, poker, protein translation, royal flush, specification, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Understanding the Genius of The Design Inference

_{Brian Miller
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Being dealt four poker hands that were all royal flushes would be a very rare and special pattern, pointing to someone cheating. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Conservation of Information, death, Design Inference, education, father, Forensics, freedom, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, investigation, movies, murder, natural causes, pattern, podcast, relationships, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A New Design Inference for a New Generation

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 20, 2023

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

3}

Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
November 20, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›