Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cheating, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, debates, James Tour, junk science, Lee Cronin, origin of life, Professor Dave Explains, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer}

“Suspect Science”: Stephen Meyer and James Tour Bring Clarity on the Origin of Life

_{David Klinghoffer
July 31, 2023

Origin of Life

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Helpfully, Meyer stops Tour again and again and asks for clarification of scientific terms and concepts that might not be obvious to all viewers. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Animal Algorithms, astrobiology, atheism, convergent evolution, design filter, Eric Cassell, evolution, hexagons, intelligent design, intuition, PLOS Biology, radio signals, Return of the God Hypothesis, SETI, The Conversation, UAPs, UC Berkeley, UFOs, Utah}

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

_{David Coppedge
July 31, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, caterpillars, consciousness, emergence, empathy, evolutionary theory, explanations, Genesis, intelligence, materialism, mind, monotheism, promissory materialism, religion, RNA, robotics}

In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

6}

The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›

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Date
July 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Cambridge, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eric Metaxas, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Politics, science, Undeniable (book), United Kingdom}

Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

_{Science & Culture
July 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise?” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Center for Science and Culture, conferences, Discovery Institute, events, faith and science, human soul, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, soul, Stephen Meyer, theology}

Watch: “Cosmic Mind, Divine Action, and Design-Engaged Theology”

_{Stephen Dilley
July 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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“The event examined intelligent design and its implications for science-engaged theology. Collectively, it made the case for a God who cares." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), beauty, Christianity, Florida, George Orwell, Germany, James B. Meigs, Nazis, Politics, religion, Soviet Union, textbooks, United States}

War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2023

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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At some point, it might be reasonable to ask, why is religion forbidden while politics is allowed to invade everything? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, cannibalism, Darwin critics, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, New York Times, predictions, taxonomy}

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

_{Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, body, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, earth, explanatory power, Heaven, John Dewey, Joshua Farris, Karl Marx, matter, mind, modus tollens, On the Origin of Species, personhood, Plato, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud, soul, Thomas Aquinas}

What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Children of Light, color, Eugene Wigner, flowers, light, Michael Denton, Nanoscale, photons, sunlight, water, wavelength}

Intelligent Design in Color Vision — A Gift to Us

_{Eric Hedin
July 27, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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How different our perception of reality would be if our brains processed visual signals from the optical nerve as only varying shades of beige or pink or grey! Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anil Seth, body, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, hallucinations, human brain, Monash University, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neuroscience, University of Sussex}

Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Read More ›