Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, agency, control systems, effectors, engineers, foresight, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, Immune System, intelligent design, logic, Michael Egnor, mind, modularity, podcast, repair, sensors, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

_{Science and Culture
January 19, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science

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Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, Chapman University, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self}

New Brain Research Supports Free Will

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, argument from incredulity, automation, autonomic nervous system, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, circulation, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, heart, Howard Glicksman, innovation, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, physiology, prosthetics, Steve Laufmann}

On the Miracles of Physiological Design

_{Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

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The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, behavior, fish, hippocampus, homeostasis, information, intelligent design, mammals, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, place cells, Research, self, zebrafish}

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

_{Eric Cassell
January 18, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, alligators, anole lizard, asteroid, birds, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, lizards, mammals, NASA, octopuses, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, theropod, Tyrannosaurus rex, Vanderbilt University}

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 17, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Read More ›

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Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeons, physicians, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

_{Science and Culture
January 17, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, aqueducts, atheism, block printing, Cambridge University, Chinese, compass, faith, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, Greeks, gunpowder, history, Ian Barbour, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John William Draper, Judeo-Christian tradition, Melissa Cain Travis, monotheism, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophers, pyramids, roads, Robert Boyle, Romans, scientific revolution, theology, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Western Europe}

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 17, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, segregationists, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 16, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Faith & Science

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, culture, electrons, intelligent design, intelligent purpose, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, materialism, necessity, protons, Strength to Love, The Man Who Was a Fool}

Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

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The era of great men and great women, with majestic and original visions, seems to be in the past. I struggle to think of a giant alive today. Can you? Read More ›