Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, complexity, fish, gills, Illustra Media, intelligent design, ions, Joseph Condeelis, Journal of Experimental Biology, kidneys, Lad Allen, life cycle, Living Waters, muscles, navigation, nerve cells, nerves, Nobel Prize, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, potassium, PubMed, salmon, senses, sodium, spawning, University of New Mexico, urine}

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

_{David Coppedge
January 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Americas, archeology, Brazil, capuchin monkeys, charcoal, hominins, humans, Ice Age, Kenya, lunar calendar, Michael Haslam, monkeys, Nature (journal), paintings, tools}

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

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January 11, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, Dominion (book), Douglas Murray, faith, Hoover Institution, intelligent design, Lutheran Church, New New Atheists, pastor, Peter Robinson, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, The War on the West, theism, Tom Holland, Uncommon Knowledge}

Does God Exist? Stephen Meyer and “New New Atheists” in Discussion

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science

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As Meyer says, isn't there something “unstable” about being “pro-“ any faith that you don’t also affirm in objective terms, “that it really happened”? Read More ›

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Date
January 10, 2023

Categories
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, Bijan Nemati, Earth-like planets, exoplanets, ID the Future, intelligent design, NASA, solar system, telescope, The Privileged Planet}

Bijan Nemati on Another Big Space Telescope, and Our Privileged Planet

_{Science and Culture
January 10, 2023

Physical Sciences, Science

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Nemati describes how the instrument his company is building for the telescope is designed to aid in the search for earth-like planets beyond our solar system. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
Tagged
, cave paintings, consciousness, Durham University, Europe, human origins, humans, hunter-gatherers, Ice Age, Live Science, Neanderthals, paleontology, Portland State University, University College London}

Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science

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London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 9, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biologists, Bruce Chapman, Catechism of the Catholic Church, chance, creation, error, evidence, evolution, intelligent design, John Paul II, media, National Review, Neo-Darwinism, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, Romans, truth, undirected evolution}

In Pope Benedict XVI, Science Had a Friend and Neo-Darwinism a Foe

_{Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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That Benedict meant to implicate neo-Darwinism in its flight from evidence is not mere wishful thinking on the part of the design community. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
January 9, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, abstraction, Benjamin Wiker, cosmos, culture, earth, evolution, genius, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Islam, Jesus Christ, Jonathan Witt, materialism, media, nature, Pope Benedict XVI, reality, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, theology, unreason}

Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

_{Bruce Chapman
January 9, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution,” he said. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 9, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Baylor College of Medicine, cell lines, censorship, Christmas, coordination, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, endosome, eugenics, evolution, function, genomes, intelligent design, Maria Clara Zanellati, meaninglessness, Narnia, Nature (journal), orchestration, Racism, regulation, rewiring, Sarah Cohen, Science Advances, Science Magazine, signaling, ugliness, X Club}

Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?

_{David Coppedge
January 9, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Its summer of dominance after neo-Darwinism arose and conquered every field of biology led to an autumn of colorful just-so stories, and now a Narnian rule. Read More ›

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Date
January 8, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, Frank Tipler, ID the Future, Science Uprising, Singularity, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, TIME, transhumanists, YouTube videos}

Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

_{Science and Culture
January 8, 2023

Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science

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The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Big Tech, Center for Disease Control, COVID-19, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdown, pandemic, podcast, Politics, public health, Stanford University, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization}

Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science, Scientific Freedom

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Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Read More ›