Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Brazil, Crato limestones, dino-fuzz, dinosaurs, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, random mutations, theropod, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 9, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, abortions, babies, birth defects, chromosomes, egg cells, fathers, human experimentation, humans, infertility, mice, mother, procreation, skin cells, stem cells, The Guardian, women}

Mice Born with No Mother, Two Fathers: What Next?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Ostensibly the purpose would be to help with rare forms of infertility in women. But these are dual-edged technologies. Read More ›

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Author
Nathan Jacobson

Date
March 9, 2023

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animatronics, artificial intelligence, cave walls, charcoal, imitation, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, painting, photography, realism, Renaissance, Robert J. Marks II, rocks, seductive optics, Steve Jobs}

Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence

_{Nathan Jacobson
March 9, 2023

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromosomes, convergence, convergent evolution, electromagnetic waves, evolution, evolutionary plasticity, eye, intelligent design, light, light-sensitive spot, Living Waters, Nature (journal), New Scientist, optics, organelles, plankton, University of British Columbia}

Convergence? One-Celled Creature Has an Eye!

_{David Coppedge
March 9, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Convergent evolution” is not a process. It is a post-hoc observation based on evolutionary assumptions. Read More ›

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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

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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

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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 ›