Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
February 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, cancer, Charles Darwin, enzymes, Evolution News, Long Story Short, magnesium, metabolism, mutations, nucleotides, replication, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA world, RNA-Peptide World, self-replicators, Tomonori Totani}

Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

_{Rob Stadler
February 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, breakout sessions, Casey Luskin, Dallas, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, events, faith, human body, intelligent design, James Tour, livestream, social media, Stephen Meyer, Titus Kennedy}

Livestream the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

_{David Klinghoffer
February 14, 2023

Archaeology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Our 2023 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, this coming Friday and Saturday, is quite different from past years. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, animation, biological origins, cheating, chemical evolution, Discovery Institute, evolution, humor, intelligent design, life, Long Story Short, replication, RNA world, RNA-Peptide World}

On Origin of Life, New Long Story Skewers Materialist Doctrine

_{David Klinghoffer
February 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The OOL researchers don’t believe they are cheating or stealing. They’re not dishonest, or stupid. But they are fooling themselves. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cartorhynchus, cetaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, Permian-Triassic extinction, Science (journal), whales}

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›

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Date
February 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, David Coppedge, horse, ID the Future, Moon, ruminants, teeth}

Ruminants, Moon Watchers Bedevil Darwin

_{Science and Culture
February 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Some ingenious molecular engineering crops up in widely divergent creatures, giving them some impressive abilities to read lunar cycles. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 13, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Psychology
Tagged
, Brazilian National Academy of Sciences, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Cosmic Habitable Age, developmental biology, evolution, faith, Fazale Rana, foresight, fossil record, Frederik van Niekerk, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Hugh Ross, human origins, intelligent design, James Tour, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, Neo-Darwinism, palaeoanthropology, Science and Faith in Dialogue, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, water}

New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

_{Casey Luskin
February 13, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Psychology

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We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Day, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, history, intelligent design, Michael Denton, public education, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, William Paley}

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
February 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Read More ›

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Date
February 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, Communism, Dominion (book), ID the Future, Matthew Arnold, miracles, Peter Robinson, podcast, The War on the West, Tom Holland, Uncommon Knowledge, Victorian England}

From “Dover Beach” to Wokeness and Beyond

_{Science and Culture
February 11, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

1}

Can we embrace the Christian ethical framework without belief in God, miracles, and the afterlife? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, guinea pigs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Paleocene, PaleoDB, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, Frank Turek, intelligent design, Islam, logic, paperback, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theologians, universe, William Lane Craig, Young Earth Creationism}

Meyer, Craig, Turek: Examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument

_{David Klinghoffer
February 9, 2023

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Kalam is a reference to ideas in medieval Islamic philosophy that William Lane Craig singlehandedly did much to revive. Read More ›