Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, apes, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, East India Company, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theory, females, human races, humans, Java, Lord Monboddo, monkeys, orangutans, race science, racial disparities, Racism, special creation, species, speech, tails, The Descent of Man, travelers, women}

Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 19, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brian Miller, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinian assumptions, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, engineering, engineering principles, engineers, evolution, fish jaws, four-bar linkage, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Research, scholars, scientists, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, chimpanzee genome, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary genomics, gap divergence, genetics, Haeckel’s embryos, human genome, humans, Icons of Evolution, junk DNA, Nature (journal), non-sex chromosomes, nucleotide, objections, persistent scientific errors, Queen Mary University London, rejoinders, repetitive DNA, Richard Buggs}

Critics Struggle with Evidence Humans and Chimps Are 15 Percent Genetically Different

_{Casey Luskin
June 18, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Before we dive into what critics are saying, I want to note that good authorities have come to similar numerical conclusions as I did. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, billionaires, China, Chinese Communist Party, cold, environment, environmental problems, environmentalism, glaciers, heat, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human rights, human uniqueness, humans, nature, nature rights, oceans, Oxford University, plastics, Scoop World, Sycamore Gap tree, trees, United Nations, Volker Türk}

UN Pushes Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 18, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accountability, Center for Science and Culture, coder, communication, cosmic force, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, designer, Discovery Institute Press, dishwashers, DNA, donation, drugs, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, grandfather, humanity, ID Education Day, intelligent design, media, Michael Behe, monthly donation, mutations, naturalism, nature, prison, professors, sex, Summer Seminar, theistic evolution}

Reading Behe in Prison

_{Tova Forman
June 18, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, amino acids, animation, complexity, development, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, exons, Francis Crick, genes, intelligent causation, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mRNA, proteins, riboprotein complex, Ribosome, sequence conservation, spliceosome, splicing, Tetrahymena}

Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, clinical death, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, EEG, ID the Future, journalists, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, promissory materialism, The Immortal Mind}

Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 17, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, brains, Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, Four Horsemen, idealism, illusion, Lee Smolin, materialists, mindfulness, New Atheists, octopus, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Sam Harris, self, universe}

A Conscious Universe?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, animal, annihilationists, behavior, Boston College, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, flame, good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, justice, mind, near-death experiences, number 7, Peter Kreeft, physical world, plant, rational soul, terminal lucidity}

Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Benjamin Franklin, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, garden snail, genome, George D. Rose, Hypatia of Alexandria, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Nous, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Plotinus, Protein Science (journal), Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, seashells, snails, The Physical Basis of Biology, Walter Elsasser, whiteboard, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›