Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fauna, evolution, Evolution News, fossil record, genetic information, Graham Budd, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Nick Matzke, oxygen, paleobiology, paleontology, Precambrian, Professor Dave, scientific literature, Sören Jensen, Stephen Meyer}

FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
May 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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An email correspondent who is friendly to intelligent design (ID) recently wrote us asking how to respond to common objections to ID arguments about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Biola University, body, Center for Science and Culture, consciousness, Discovery Institute, dualism, hylomorphism, J.P. Moreland, materialism, Mereology, panpsychism, philosophy of mind, soul, substance dualism, The Substance of Consciousness, Thomism, University of Texas}

Coming Soon: The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism

_{Peter Biles
May 19, 2023

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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J. P. Moreland has written prolifically on the soul and the mind/body issue in the past. In this great volume, his views are cogently articulated and defended. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Central Asia, Crurotarsi, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Mammaliaformes, Pappochelys, Peter Ward, Preondactylus, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

_{Günter Bechly
May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biological origins, chemists, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, James Tour, primordial soup, Professor Dave Explains, Rice University, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: James Tour and Dave Farina Will Debate at Rice University on Friday; Watch Here

_{David Klinghoffer
May 18, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Dr. Tour is highly skeptical that theorists have got it all figured out about how life arose on a barren early Earth through known material processes alone. Read More ›

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Date
May 18, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, Be a Movie Producer, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, film festival, human body, oxygen, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos}

Film Festival 2023 — “Cascading Problems: The Case of Oxygen”

_{Science and Culture
May 18, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Today we are screening from the “Your Designed Body” series which explores the cascading problem of how oxygen is transported to the body’s trillions of cells. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 18, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, earth, electromagnetism, intelligent design, Midwest, oceans, rain, Southern California, sun, sunset, temperature, water vapor, wavelength, weather}

Intelligent Design in Weather — The “Perfect Day” Conspiracy

_{Eric Hedin
May 18, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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At the end of a perfect day, when the Sun is setting, the beams of light we see slant through the atmosphere nearly parallel (tangent) to the Earth’s surface. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 17, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dawkins Test, epicycles, evolution, Evolution News, genes, geocentric model, ID the Future, intelligent design, phylogenomics, Richard Dawkins, solar system, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry}

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan Witt
May 17, 2023

Astronomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 17, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, black holes, earth, fine-timing, galaxy, General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves, gravity, heavens, Louisiana, mirror, proton, spacetime, stars, sun, universe, Washington State}

In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything

_{Eric Hedin
May 17, 2023

Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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Let’s look at how timing across multiple orders of magnitude brought together cosmic and human events. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bears, blowhole, body temperature, calf (whale), cetaceans, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, diving, dolphin, Everhard Slijper, evolution, floating ribs, fluke, Indohyus, intelligent design, James Butler, lungs, mammals, milk, nipple, nitrogen, porpoise, Richard Brown, sea lion, sperm whale, submersion, surfactants, testes, the bends, whales}

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

_{Jonathan Wells
May 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›

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Date
May 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellar motor, Boston, cell division, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, DNA replication, evolution, evolutionary biology, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood ratio, materialists, Sattler College}

Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

_{Science and Culture
May 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Read More ›