Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

7}

“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

1}

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

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

2}

“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

1}

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

19}

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