Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP synthase, bacterial cell, cells, complexity, DNA, efficiency, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary biologists, humpback whale, Illustra Media, ingenuity, intelligent design, Living Waters, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural selection, PNAS, proofreading, proteins, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Tim Standish, Uppsala University}

Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, aquarium, killer whales, New York Times, orcas}

Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

2}

I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, breaking things, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, flasks, genes, genetic information, ID the Future, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, niche advantages, novelty, oxygen, podcast}

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

_{Science and Culture
April 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Social Sciences
Tagged
, agency, Andrea Roli, computer science, economy, ecosystems, evolution, innovation, intelligent design, naturalism, ontology, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, Stuart A. Kauffman, teleology}

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

_{Paul Nelson
March 31, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Social Sciences

2}

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Altos Labs, Amazon, cells, Daily Mail, disease, Elon Musk, eschaton, futurists, Google, human beings, immortality, Jeff Bezos, longevity, nanobots, Ray Kurzweil, robots, transhumanists, utopianism}

Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

_{Science and Culture
March 31, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

3}

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin critics, Darwinists, Early Triassic, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, nothosaurs, Permian period, plesiosaurs}

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

_{Günter Bechly
March 31, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
David Swift

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, biologists, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, common descent, complexity, embryo, embryonic development, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, fish, gastrulation, homology, mammals, mutations, natural selection, PZ Myers, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, vertebrates}

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

_{David Swift
March 30, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences

6}

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, aliens, astronomers, atheism, Avi Loeb, evidence, Harvard University, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jonah Goldberg, methodological naturalism, rocks, science stopper, Twitter}

Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism

_{Paul Nelson
March 30, 2023

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

2}

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, climate change, conservation, currency, Great Salt Lake, Harvard Divinity School, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, nature worship, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›

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Author
Herman B. Bouma

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, ants, bees, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, evolution, eyes, females, flies, Giraffe, honeycomb, insects, Louis Agassiz, males, National Science Teaching Association, natural selection, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, organs, paleontologists, Precambrian strata, random variations, sudden appearance}

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

_{Herman B. Bouma
March 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology, Science

8}

In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.” Read More ›