Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, correspondence, cruelty, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, dehumanization, evolution, fact check, history, HMS Beagle, James Moore, newspapers, primary sources, Racism, Robert Fitzroy, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, slaves}

Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

_{Robert Shedinger
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Arctic Ocean, biodiversity, Cartorhynchus, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, Holzmaden, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Lower Jurassic, marine reptiles, Norway, Permian-Triassic extinction, population genetics, Posidonia shale, Stenopterygius quadricissus, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, Cosmic Habitable Age, cosmos, deism, designer, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, James Joyce, podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

_{Science and Culture
March 16, 2023

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, abolitionists, Adrian Desmond, common descent, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, historiography, history, HMS Beagle, human origins, James Moore, new york, Ohio, Pennsylvania, race, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, Tierra del Fuego, William Darwin Fox}

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

_{Robert Shedinger
March 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian gradualism, David A. Hullender, Denis Noble, Elliott Sober, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, intelligent design, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, Olen R. Brown, probability, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, punctuated equilibrium, Saint Augustine, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Templeton Foundation}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
March 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

"Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia." Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromatin, embryogenesis, embryos, junk DNA, mice, Nature Genetics, ontogeny, retrotransposons, The Myth of Junk DNA, transcription, transcriptome}

More Jobs for “Junk” DNA

_{Paul Nelson
March 15, 2023

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

1}

It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, genetic mutations, intelligent design, Nature Genetics, noun, pleiotropy, propositions, verb}

Mapping the Pleiotropic Network of Human Cells

_{Paul Nelson
March 15, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

Genes and proteins are remarkably similar to natural-language words in a polyfunctional respect. Read More ›

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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 ›