Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, assumptions, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evidence, intelligent design, models, natural world, optimality, predictions, purpose, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology, tools}

Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

_{Science and Culture
April 14, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

1}

Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, critics, debates, dialogue, epilogue, evolution, faith and science, information, intelligent design, interviews, Michael Shermer, paperback, podcast, resources, respect, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer, Shermer: Civil Dialogue and Mutual Respect

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Michael Shermer, a long-time debating partner of Dr. Meyer and an opponent of intelligent design, welcomes Meyer onto his podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic, moth}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, conversation, epilogue, evolution, faith and science, hardcover, information, intelligent design, interviews, paperback, Peter Robinson, resources, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, website}

God Hypothesis: Stephen Meyer’s Best Interviews

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

Today, here’s a wide-ranging and often mind-bending conversation with Peter Robinson. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Bede, Christianity, conflict myth, Euclid, experiments, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, history, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Literal Commentary on Genesis, medicine, medieval Church, Medieval science, Middle Ages, Myth of the Dark Ages, Oxford University, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Roman Catholic, Saint Augustine, science and religion, The Nature of Things, University of Bologna, Walter Laird, Warfare Thesis}

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity

_{Mike Keas
April 13, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Mathematics

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The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 12, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, arguments, Brian Keating, epilogue, faith and science, information, intelligent design, interviews, objections, paperback, physicists, podcast, resources, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego, website}

God Hypothesis: New Paperback with Reply to Critics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 12, 2023

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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We're sharing some of the best interviews Meyer has given in support of the book. Here is a great exchange with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
April 12, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Engineering
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, Biomimetics, Brazil, cell membranes, engineers, foresight, genetic code, intelligent design, inventions, Livia Eberlin, living cell, mass spectrometry, medicines, mind, nature, oxygen, São Paulo, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Campinas}

Breakthroughs Unveil Evidence of Foresight in Nature

_{Marcos Eberlin
April 12, 2023

Chemistry, Engineering, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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From an engineering standpoint, it was essential that a way be found to protect the cell, life’s most basic unit. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, books, debate, faith, God Hypothesis, Great Minds with Michael Medved, information, intelligent design, Michael Medved, paperback, resources, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Stephen Meyer}

Debate About the God Hypothesis: An Overview with Stephen Meyer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 11, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Stephen Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis is out now in paperback with a new epilogue by Dr. Meyer responding to critics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, breast cancer, Darwin Devolves, elephants, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, genomes, machinery, mutations, proteins, The Blind Watchmaker, woolly mammoth}

Even More Mammoth Devolution

_{Michael Behe
April 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

3}

The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Berra's Blunder, Casey Luskin, Corvette, Darwinists, dinosaurs, engines, evolution, extinction, mammals, paleontologists, Phillip E. Johnson, promissory note, railroad, Royal Society Open Science, steam engine, Tim Berra, University of Kansas}

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

_{David Coppedge
April 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Read More ›