Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, Charles Darwin, elephant, embryos, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Siberia, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth}

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

_{Rob Sheldon
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, COSM, Harvard University Press, human nature, humanism, Latin, Reductionism, Renaissance, Sam Altman, Substack, The Atlantic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wired, Yuval Harari}

Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

_{Peter Biles
August 31, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Aleš Hrdlička, brains, Darwinian racism, documentary, evolution, human origins, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, John West, Maryland, Michael Medved, podcast, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Post}

Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 31, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, 23andMe, central dogma, complexity, genome, genomics, Harvard University, information, intelligent design, interactome, metabolites, molecular biology, mouse, neurons, proteins, Science (journal), transcriptome}

Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 31, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, berries, birds, carnivores, cattle, chance, cows, drinking, ecosystem, evolution, fish, food, gills, goats, grasses, grazing, herbivores, horses, human intelligence, hummingbirds, intelligent design, krill, livestock, molecules, natural selection, nectar, nuts, prey, seeds, sheep, water, winter, zooplankton}

Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?

_{Eric Hedin
August 30, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biomolecules, cancer, chemical elements, chloroplasts, CHNOPS, DNA, emergence, Human Genome Project, illness, Irreducible Complexity, John Stuart Mill, materialistic science, organisms, Reductionism, science of purpose, zebras}

Emergence by Design

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, climate change, David Coppedge, earth, Eric Hedin, gases, intelligent design, light, NASA, The Conversation, weather}

Geoengineering on an Intelligently Designed Planet — Let’s Be Careful with That

_{Tova Levengood
August 30, 2023

Environment & Climate, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Scientists are still discovering how many systems, controls, and other aspects of planetary fine-tuning are in place to ensure that we have abundant life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, censorship, COVID-19, embryonic stem cells, evidence-based medicine, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, ideology, medical establishment, medicine, Oxford University, p-hacking, plausibility, Politics, scientism, Stanford University, The Lancet, trust, Vaccines}

Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Metascience, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›