Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, Charles Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinism, history, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, Olufemi Oluniyi, podcast, Racism, The Descent of Man}

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

_{Science and Culture
March 8, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, appetite, brain, Brown University, Cartesian dualism, Christianity, consciousness, emotion, evolution, eye, intellect, Kenneth Miller, materialism, memory, mind-brain problem, neuroscience, perception, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, Roman Catholic, sensations, soul, The Human Instinct, Thomas Aquinas}

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

8}

Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Florida, Homer, intelligent design, naturalists, The Odyssey, tortoises, Travel, tunnels}

Postcard from Florida: When Tortoises Joust

_{Paul Nelson
March 8, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

This fellow was peacefully grazing by himself, unlike his pugilistic cousins nearby. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, deadline, Discovery Institute, education, events, evolution, graduate students, humanities, intelligent design, sciences, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, undergraduates}

Summer Seminars on ID Are FREE but Application Deadline Is Near

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The program is highly subsidized and intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and humanities. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, computers, Discovery Institute, human beings, information, Non-Computable You, probabilities, Robert J. Marks II, The Federalist}

Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?” Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibodies, directed mutations, ID the Future, Jonathan Bartlett, Jonathan McLatchie, mutations, podcast, random processes}

Jonathan Bartlett on the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Often a given biological system dramatically limits the search space of possible mutations in useful ways. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit}

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, analgesic, Aristotle, arthritis, body, causation, chirality, documentary, efficient cause, final cause, formal cause, Francis Bacon, free will, individuation, Johns Hopkins University, libertarian free will, material cause, matter, mind, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, sculptor, sculpture, Sean Carroll, statue, trailer}

Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

_{Michael Egnor
March 6, 2023

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Adam Frank, Arthropoda, Biogenetic Law, biosphere, Chordata, eukaryotes, evolution, intelligent life, Jacques Monod, life, monophyly, probability, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference, Tree of Life, universal common descent, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

_{Paul Nelson
March 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

3}

How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, apes, barbarians, Carl Linnaeus, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, ethnicity, evolution, fitness, humans, intelligence, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, savages, Social Darwinism}

Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
March 6, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

5}

These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress! Read More ›