Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
October 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, evolution, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, Nancy Pearcey, podcast, purpose, sexuality, Tod Butterfield}

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

_{Science & Culture
October 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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“Once you accept a Darwinian materialist view of nature," says Professor Pearcey, “logically speaking you are going to end up with a low view of the body.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Darwinian mechanisms, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, free will, information, Justine Sergent, logic, McGill University, mind, neuroscience, patients, PZ Myers, Roger Sperry, split brain, Yair Pinto}

My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bible, Canada, creationism, fundamentalists, intelligent design, magazines, media, National Post, newspapers, public education, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Court}

Throwback Thursday: Meyer Asks, “What Is This Theory of Intelligent Design?”

_{Emily Sandico
October 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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"As the story goes, intelligent design is just creationism repackaged by religious fundamentalists in order to circumvent a 1987 Supreme Court prohibition." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ad hominem, amino acids, Assembly Theory, biologists, Brian Miller, chess, David Klinghoffer, DNA, James Tour, Lee Cronin, logic, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Philip Ball, RNA, Sara Walker, Twitter}

I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

_{Tova Levengood
October 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, atheism, benevolence, Charles Darwin, creation myth, Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, evil, Gaza, genes, genocide, good, Hamas, Holocaust, human nature, humanity, Israel, Moral Law, morality, music, natural selection, neurotransmitters, rape, relativism, selfish genes, slaughter, sterilization, William Shakespeare}

From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, administrators, Africa, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, faculty, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenya, Michael Behe, Phillip E. Johnson, photos, podcast, South Africa, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Travel, United States}

Luskin and Miller on the State of ID in Africa

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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The response was inspiring. At the University of Eldoret in Kenya, Luskin and Miller were greeted with no less than a band and a red carpet! Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationism, creator, designer, earth, empirical evidence, Facebook, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, intelligent agents, intelligent design, materialists, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

_{Emily Sandico
October 18, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Read More ›