Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, defendants, free will, humans, moral agency, morality, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, responsibility}

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 6, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bristle worms, brown algae, conservation of function, corals, Daily Mail, evolution, fish, intelligent design, lunar cycle, Moon, moonlight, Nature Communications, polychaetes, Smithsonian Magazine, sunlight, turtles, worms}

Animals Tune Behavior by Lunar Cycle; but How?

_{David Coppedge
January 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, Darwinism, deforestation, elephant shrews, Eocene, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, K/Pg impact event, Late Paleocene, Madagascar, molecular data, Morocco, Namibia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

_{Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? Read More ›

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Author
Bijan Nemati

Date
January 5, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, arachnids, beetle, Darwinian theory, Irreducible Complexity, Mojave Desert, Oregon State University, pincers, sensors}

Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion

_{Bijan Nemati
January 5, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Science

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The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey. Read More ›