Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, children, COVID-19, epidemiology, Francis Collins, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya, lab leak, Martin Kulldorff, Nature Medicine, NIH, Oxford University, pandemic, public health, public policy, schools, Stanford University Medical Center, Sunetra Gupta, Washington Post, Wired, Wuhan Institute of Virology}

Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

The harm done unnecessarily to children — their lost time in school, not to mention missed socialization — is a blow from which many will never recover. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Cambrian News, David A. Hullender, Elsevier, Émile Borel, evolution, Evolution News, genome, Krebs cycle, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, Olen R. Brown, On the Origin of Species, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Research, selection, South Africa}

Peer-Reviewed Paper: “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

_{Casey Luskin
March 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioelectric field, bioelectricity, blood clotting, cable bacteria, drug delivery, electricity, locomotion, Monash University, PNAS, proteins, skin cells, Steve Laufmann, swimming pool, The Scientist, titin, University of Warwick, Walt Whitman, water wires, Your Designed Body}

Let’s Sing the Body Electric

_{David Coppedge
March 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The emerging science of “bioelectricity” is opening new vistas into the electrical energy powering our nerves, organs, and tissues. Read More ›

Sunrise at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, CO

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Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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, academia, application, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, college, Colorado, deadline, education, events, evolution, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, professionals, professors, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, students, Summer Seminars, teachers, Travel, undergraduates}

Summers Seminars: A MUST if You’re Considering a Science Career; Applications Due April 1

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

One student said he was shocked to find that the academic quality was greater than that of many of his college courses and yet it cost him nothing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationists, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, human life, improbability, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, materialism, nature, order, Oxford University Press, Stephen Meyer, Unbelievable, word salad}

Kudos: Saleem Ali, ID Critic, Agrees to Talk with an ID Proponent

_{David Klinghoffer
March 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Dr. Ali’s comments in his discussion with Meyer and Brierley are a little bit of a word salad, but never mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, evolutionary icons, Gizmodo, hominids, hominins, human origins, humans, intelligence, macaque monkeys, macaques, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, monkeys, primates, rocks, Science Advances, Thailand, The Hill, tools}

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astronomers, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, The Privileged Planet}

The Problem of Earth Privilege: It’s Getting Worse

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2023

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

1}

So, the Earth is just a humdrum planet? Far from it, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez argues. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Nathan Jacobson

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, Gollum, Mona Lisa, pixels, Shrek, Space Invaders, virtual reality}

Depths of Design: Moving Pixels

_{Nathan Jacobson
March 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

None of these avatars possess any inherent intelligence whatsoever. Every human instinct therein is an extension of a game developer’s forethought. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, pregnancy tissue, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Read More ›