Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, Blood Meridian, books, C.S. Lewis, Cormac McCarthy, fiction, geometry, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Joyce, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematician, meaning, Michael Crichton, New York Times, order, Stella Maris, The Passenger, The Road}

Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

_{Peter Biles
April 28, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, ecological niches, flukes, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genes, genetic changes, genetic coding, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, marine reptiles, mosasaurs, mutations, North America, population genetics, sharks, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
April 28, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Paleontology

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The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Technology
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), books, Brave New World, censorship, dystopia, libraries, music, noise, novels, paper, podcasts, radios, Singularity, sound, transhumanism}

Here’s Another Transhumanist Dream Come True — Revisiting Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

_{Peter Biles
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom, Technology

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Despite all the transhumanist predictions of the Singularity, it’s hard to dismiss the fact that to a certain degree we’ve already merged with our machines. Read More ›

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Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian materialism, design reasoning, evolution, genetic code, ID the Future, intelligent design, john lennox, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Oxford University, podcast, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer on Darwin’s Other Doubt

_{Science and Culture
April 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Listen to a probing conversation about the growing evidence for intelligent design and the scientific and philosophical problems with Darwinian materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, children, cyberspace, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender dysphoria, hormones, lifestyle, mastectomies, Medicaid, mental illness, penis, puberty, Singularity, spinal cord, Stanford University, surgery, transableism, transgenderism, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights, uterus, uterus transplant, vagina, zealotry}

We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Benjamin Wiker, Christianity, Church Fathers, creation, defining id, designer, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Franciscan University, God's Grandeur, intellectuals, intelligent cause, intelligent design, interventionism, James Sinclair, Jonathan Witt, Logan Gage, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural laws, Reductionism, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, scientists, Scripture, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common descent, universe, William Lane Craig}

Here Is What We Mean by Intelligent Design (And What We Don’t)

_{Ann Gauger
April 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Some ID supporters agree with universal common descent, but many ID supporters argue against the idea that all life shares a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Be Smart, classrooms, DNA, education, Evolution News, Gerald Joyce, ideology, information, Long Story Short, materialism, misrepresentation, Next Generation Science Standards, NGSS, nucleotides, PBS, polymerization, replication, RNA, Stated Clearly, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short Detonates Propaganda About the Origin of Life

_{Rob Stadler
April 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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These popular origin-of-life videos subordinate science to ideology. Accurate science clearly contradicts their teaching. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, David Coppedge, evolution, Evolution News, genes, hybridization, intelligent design, origins, sex, species, Star Trek, Starships, Stephen Barr, symmetry, universal common descent}

Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

_{Rob Sheldon
April 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Be Smart, building blocks, chemical evolution, early Earth, Long Story Short, PBS, Rob Stadler, science, universe, YouTube videos}

On the Origin of Life, Long Story Short Goes After Pop YouTube Science

_{David Klinghoffer
April 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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“It’s easy to say things that aren’t true and get people to believe them, especially when they sound science-y and are mixed in with well-known facts.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, Borgs, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Starships, Sweden, transposable elements, transposons, Uppsala University}

Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

_{David Coppedge
April 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›