Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, gymnosperm, Middle Triassic, North America, Phanerozoic Eon, pollen, Switzerland, Young Earth Creationists}

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, abstract thinking, academics, Adam and Eve, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Côte D’Ivoire, experts, human beings, humans, Jane Goodall, Politics, primatology, Richard Wrangham, Tarzan}

Studying Chimps Is “Politics by Other Means”

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Science

3}

A recent book in which chimpanzee experts reflect on their work tells us a good deal about the chimpanzee expert world. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, bio-engineering, evolution, foresight, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Egnor, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neurosurgery, physicians, planning, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, Your Designed Body}

Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science

1}

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, caregivers, dehydration, elderly, euthanasia, hospice, reporters, starvation, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

We Aren’t an Anti-Suicide Culture Anymore

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

22}

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, beauty, development, genetic coding, intelligent design, morphology, Pittsburgh, protein expression, Thanksgiving}

Viewing Chinese Lanterns in Pittsburgh

_{Paul Nelson
November 30, 2022

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Science

1}

I mused about the genetic coding requirements for the changes in protein expression and timing (during development) to give its precise floral morphology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, James Ferguson, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope, University of Wisconsin}

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

_{Robert Shedinger
November 30, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science

5}

ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Apostle John, Aristotle, charity, Christianity, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Edward Feser, Empedocles, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, G.K. Chesterton, gnosticism, Howard Glicksman, human dignity, intellectual captivity, intelligent design, John West, Kenneth Miller, kin selection, sexuality, Simon Conway Morris, Steve Laufmann, teleology, theology, Thomas Aquinas, University of Notre Dame, Your Designed Body}

Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions

_{Brian Miller
November 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

9}

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, artifacts, bone marrow, bones, cardiovascular system, cells, choreography, coffee, coordination, gastrointestinal system, human body, Immune System, integration, intelligent design, lymphatic system, nervous system, orchestration, organization, oxygen, red blood cells, reproductive system, respiratory system, sawmill, single-celled organism, skeletal system, skin, specialization}

Your Intelligently Designed Body Is a System of Systems

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
November 30, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

9}

To be alive, every cell in your body needs solutions to a complicated set of problems. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cesare Lombroso, criminologists, Darwinism, evolution, Greece, ID the Future, intelligent design, Italians, Italy, philosophers, podcast, Racism, Rome, Turin, Western civilization}

John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

1}

West celebrates Italy’s contributions to civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas. Read More ›