Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, beavers, carnivores, Darwinism, ecosystem, elephants, engineers, evolution, herbivores, humans, hyenas, intelligent design, lions, mammals, oryx, Stanford University, stewardship, trunks, tusks, vertebrates}

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›

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Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Douglas Murray, faith, ID the Future, Peter Robinson, podcast, religion, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, theism, Tom Holland, Uncommon Knowledge}

Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, Douglas Murray: God and the West

_{Science and Culture
February 9, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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According to Meyer the decline of faith has occurred in the face of increasing scientific evidence for the existence of God. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, atheism, Bruce Lipshutz, cell membrane, Dave Farina, DNA, early Earth, fatty acids, James Tour, Lee Cronin, nucleotides, polynucleotides, proteins, ribose, RNA, simple sugars, Steve Benner}

James Tour Dismantles Dave Farina’s Expert Witnesses on the State of Origin-of-Life Research

_{Brian Miller
February 9, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Farina is a committed atheist who has demonstrated that he is not encumbered by the same ethical standards that James Tour is. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, Herwart von Hohenburg, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Mysterium Cosmographicum, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biotech, clones, Daily Mail, Dolly the sheep, egg cell, embryos, fetuses, humans, immortality, medicine, nucleus, somatic cell nuclear transfer, transhumanists}

Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alison Abbott, Biomimetics, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Living Waters, molecular clock, Mollusca, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Paul Nelson, propulsion, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago}

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

_{David Coppedge
February 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Christianity, creator, faith, Hoover Institution, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, materialism, mathematician, Oxford University, Peter Robinson, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, scientists, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge}

Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

_{David Klinghoffer
February 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, anti-humanism, COVID-19, equity, global warming, Greta Thunberg, health, human beings, pandemic, Peter Singer, wokeness}

Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 6, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Medicine

3}

This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", chocolate, Columbia University, David Kipping, design detection, Illinois, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lex Fridman, universe}

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›