Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, morphine, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

4}

What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, bad design, BIO-Complexity, bones, Brian Miller, Bristol University, evolution, fibula, flexibility, form, function, intelligent design, ligaments, muscles, Nathan Lents, Stuart Burgess}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Answers Claims of “Bad Design” of the Human Foot/Ankle

_{Casey Luskin
March 24, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

6}

Many who have studied the foot recognized its “excellent design." Leonardo da Vinci called the human foot “a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontologists, Paleozoic, sensory hairs, wing venation, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›

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Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Casey Luskin, Christianity, conflict myth, Cosmos (series), faith, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, ID the Future, Inquisition, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, podcast}

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

_{Science and Culture
March 23, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

1}

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, amniotes, amphibians, BIO-Complexity, birds, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, development, developmental biology, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, gastrulation, homology, intelligent design, lancelets, mammals, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
March 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Read More ›

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Author
Herman B. Bouma

Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Culture
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Casey Luskin, censorship, Charles Darwin, creationism, debate, evolution, Federal Government, free speech, intelligent design, Michael Shellenberger, National Science Teaching Association, poster presentation, scientific evidence, teachers}

I Got Canceled by the National Science Teaching Association

_{Herman B. Bouma
March 23, 2023

Biology, Culture, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

6}

My topic was “The Top 10 Scientific Arguments Against Darwin’s Theory — According to Darwin Himself.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Canada, cerebral palsy, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, murder, Robert Latimer}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Culture
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, academic freedom, application deadline, biological origins, Brian Miller, cancel culture, Casey Luskin, colleges, Colorado, evolution, free speech, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, media, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, Robert J. Marks II, Science, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, universities, Wesley J. Smith}

Summer Seminars in Colorado — A FREE Remedy for Cancel Culture; Applications Due April 1

_{David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2023

Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

2}

As one of our students last year said at the concluding banquet, the Summer Seminars represent “science as it should be, rather than science as it is.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, ATP synthase, ATP synthesis, biophysicists, Golgi apparatus, intelligent design, molecular machines, photosynthesis, PNAS, proton pump, quality control, University of Tokyo}

A Biochemical Icon of Intelligent Design, ATP Synthase Does More than Spin

_{David Coppedge
March 22, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

As super-resolution imaging improves, the world’s smallest rotary motor continues to amaze. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, disease, DNA, eLife, evolution, function, gain-of-function mutations, human genome, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, loss-of-function mutations, pathology, repetitive elements, Research, Short Tandem Repeats}

More Jobs for “Junk” DNA (Cont.)

_{Paul Nelson
March 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

2}

If “junk” DNA goes toxic, does that suggest it had an original normal function? See the conclusion of this new paper. Read More ›