Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Nathan Jacobson

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, Gollum, Mona Lisa, pixels, Shrek, Space Invaders, virtual reality}

Depths of Design: Moving Pixels

_{Nathan Jacobson
March 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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None of these avatars possess any inherent intelligence whatsoever. Every human instinct therein is an extension of a game developer’s forethought. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, pregnancy tissue, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 11, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computers, copyright, critical thinking, DALL-E, Gary Smith, images, intelligence, novels, writing}

For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now

_{Peter Biles
March 11, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysics, Big Bang, CERN, Cosmic Egg, cosmic origins, creation, Energy, Ernst Mayr, evolution, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, matter, planets, stars, universe, University of Rochester}

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

_{Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, computability, DNA, evolution, genes, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, material phenomena, organisms, podcast, Richard Sternberg}

Richard Sternberg on the Trail of the Immaterial Genome

_{Science and Culture
March 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Dr. Sternberg speaks on his mathematical/logical work showing the difficulty of identifying genes purely with material phenomena. Read More ›

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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 ›