Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›

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Author
Angus Menuge

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Discovery Institute Press, dualism, experience, Higgs Boson, mental states, mind, Minding the Brain, Nobel Prize, observation, Richard Swinburne, thoughts}

Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science

_{Angus Menuge
October 2, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

3}

The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, biologists, cell membrane, cells, engineers, formalism, intelligent design, nucleus, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, Ribosome, Systems Biology}

Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

_{Emily Reeves
October 2, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›

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Date
September 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, gaps, human beings, human uniqueness, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, music, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, principle of utility}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

_{Science & Culture
September 30, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Read More ›

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Author
Angus Menuge

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, form, human beings, hylomorphism, idealism, intentionality, matter, Minding the Brain, physicalism, rationality, Robert J. Marks II, soul}

A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism

_{Angus Menuge
September 29, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airfoil, automobiles, cars, constraints, eyes, gills, intelligent design, Paper Digest, peer-reviewed literature, symmetry, tail}

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

_{Emily Reeves
September 29, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, birth, cannibalism, Darwinists, embryos, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, London, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mothers, Natural History Museum, paleontology, pseudoscience, science denial, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart}

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

_{Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

11}

This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aristotle, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, evolution, function, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, Nicolaus Copernicus, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, Thomas Aquinas}

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

5}

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›