Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

60}

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

3}

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

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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

7}

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

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post

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

1}

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

7}

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

12}

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