Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BBC News, biomimicry, computer programs, ETH Zurich, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, fitness, intelligent design, Living Waters, mutations, offspring, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, Richard Dawkins, robots, selection, Star Trek, Star Wars, Switzerland, Tim Berra, William Shakespeare}

Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done

_{David Coppedge
February 23, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, biochemists, design triangulation, electricity, electron transfer, electron transport chain, evolution, evolutionary theory, homology, Hoover Dam, hydrophobic, Institute of Science and Technology, intelligent design, Leonid Sazanov, membrane lipids, molecular machines, Nanoscale, Paul Nelson, proteins, proton pumps, Research, water, water wires}

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

_{Emily Reeves
February 23, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

19}

Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Medicine
Tagged
, bees, code, DNA, English, information, meaning, Michael Behe, Morse code, organisms, Peter Robinson, pollen, purpose, random processes, science of purpose, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge}

The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
February 23, 2023

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Medicine

3}

These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just "the way things are," not proving anything. But this is not so. Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, Racism, Social Darwinism, Summer Seminar}

John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

_{Science and Culture
February 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

1}

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, American Geophysical Union, atmosphere, California, carbon, carbon emissions, climate change, diatoms, foresight, global warming, habitability, jellyfish, NASA, Nature Communications, New Zealand, notochord, Penn State, phylogeny, plankton, polychaetes, providence, reporters, Science (journal), sea salps, sea squirts, silicate weathering, Southern California, Southern Ocean, thermostat, tunicates}

Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet

_{David Coppedge
February 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

9}

A man was paddleboarding last month when he came across a mysterious creature three miles off the shoreline of California. Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common descent, evolution, genomes, humans, ID the Future, myths, podcast, proteins}

Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

_{Science and Culture
February 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99 percent similar as surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Biden Administration, debate, discourse, disinformation, free speech, health, intellectual property, International Court of Justice, medicine, misinformation, national sovereignty, pandemic, Paris accords, policies, public health, social media, technocracy, U.S. Senate, United States, World Health Organization}

Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 21, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

This treaty would be the first essential step in granting WHO the actual power to impose policies instead of relying, as now, on persuasion. Read More ›

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Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, de novo genes, evolution, intelligent design, nucleotides, Systems Biology, undergraduates, University of Pittsburgh, yeast, YouTube videos}

Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”

_{Science and Culture
February 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Professor Carvunis stressed that the genetic patterns she is studying do not fit with the evolutionary theory she learned “since I was an undergraduate.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, acorn worms, anus, Biological Reviews, chordates, Deuterostomia, echinoderms, embryology, evolution, gills, Harvard University, hemichordates, mouth, phylogeny, sea urchins, Smithsonian Institution, spines, University of Oklahoma, worms}

A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle

_{Paul Nelson
February 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

3}

According to current systematic theory, everyone reading this right now belongs to the taxonomic category Deuterostomia. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Astrobiology (journal), Bruce Lipshutz, Dave Farina, early Earth, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, investigator intervention, James Tour, Lee Cronin, minerals, nucleoside triphosphates, nucleotides, phosphate, prebiotic chemists, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, ribose, RNA, Steve Benner, synthetic chemists, YouTube videos}

Jim Tour Unmasks Steve Benner’s Double Standard and Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
February 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

If Benner assessed his experiments by the same standard he applied to others, he would have acknowledged that his attempts have yielded nothing of value. Read More ›