Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, beauty, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, bioethics, biology, biomedicine, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, Colorado, computer science, cosmology, Daniel Reeves, Emily Reeves, engineering, evo-devo, evolution, faith and science, family life, geologists, geology, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, ID 3.0, intelligent design, Ivy League, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, literature, Logan Gage, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, multiverse, origin of life, Paul Nelson, physics, Richard Gunasekera, Robert J. Marks, Rocky Mountains, scientocracy, sexuality, society, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, undergraduates, Winston Ewert}

Just Got Back from the Summer Seminars

_{Casey Luskin
July 2, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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As always, this selective program was entirely cost free to participants, thanks to our generous supporters. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Charles Ives, circatidal rhythms, conductors, crustaceans, Current Biology, frogs, fruit flies, homeostasis, Irreducible Complexity, kicking, Krisha Aghi, life cycle, lunar cycles, Metamorphosis, orbital cycles, order, Patrick Emery, randomness, Richard Kinkead, sand flea, signal transducers, solar cycles, stability, stroking, synapse, tadpole, Tara A. Janes, tempos, treading water, Victoria Lewis}

Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water

_{David Coppedge
July 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, apologists, Beyond Evolution, biologic institute, Christians, Darwinian evolution, devolution, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, epigenetic change, evangelists, evolution, faith and science, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Michael Levin, Plato’s Revenge, restaurants, Richard Sternberg, Sean McDowell, shopping, Sy Garte, Undeniable (book), voting, YouTubers}

Time for Christians to Move Beyond the Evolution Wars?

_{Science and Culture
July 1, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway. Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Aril Slotte, Barents Sea, fish, herring, Institute for Marine Research, intelligence, Katarina Zimmer, larvae, Lofoten, migration, Nautilus, Norway, plankton, spawning, zooplankton}

When Schools of Fish Lose Their Memories

_{Science and Culture
July 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Casey Luskin, crime, culture, Darwin skeptics, Dayton, evolution, faith and science, fundamentalism, human evolution, ID the Future, Inherit the Wind, John T. Scopes, media, Michael Egnor, modernism, podcast, radio, science, Scopes Monkey Trial, stereotypes, technology, Tennessee}

A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes Is Alive and Well

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 1, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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According to secularist legend, the Scopes trial represented a great showdown between ignorant, fundamentalist religion and enlightened, scientific progress. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, americans, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Big Bang, biology, brain, Christians, cultural Christianity, cultural Christians, Dayton, Denyse O'Leary, DNA, Elon Musk, evolution, faith and science, feelings, immaterial genome, intellectuals, Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, mainstream media, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New Atheist, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Peter Savodnik, Pew Research Center, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Salvo Magazine, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stephen Meyer, Tennessee, The Free Press, The Immortal Mind, Western civilization}

With Scopes Trial Anniversary Approaching, We Need Science, Not Just Feelings

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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At best, Christian commitment without a reasonable basis is only shifting sand under believers’ feet. At worst, it invites disdain. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, common design, creationists, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic differences, genetic similarities, genetic variations, geologists, humans, Institute for Creation Research, intelligent design, Jeff Tomkins, Joel Duff, Jonathan Wells, National Museum of Natural History, persistent scientific errors, PZ Myers, Smithsonian Institution, University of Akron, University of Minnesota, YouTube videos, Zachary Ardern, zombies}

On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 29, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Christian practice, Christianity Today, civilization, cultural Christianity, Douglas Adams, Elon Musk, FaithIt, god of the philosophers, Jordan Peterson, Mona Lisa, Piss Christ, religion of curiosity, Richard Dawkins, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Tom Holland}

To Save Civilization, Will “Cultural Christianity” Suffice?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 29, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Arts
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent agents, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form}

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 27, 2025

Anatomy, Arts, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Read More ›