Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, blood, consequences, evolution, ID 3.0, intelligent design, iPad, Joana Xavier, money, naturalism, parrots, Perry Marshall, Philip Kitcher, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theology, University College London, William Harvey, YouTube videos}

Joana Xavier, Skepticism About Design, and a Fable About a Gray Parrot with an iPad

_{Paul Nelson
December 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Origin of Life

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Xavier, of University College London, is a young origin-of-life researcher who has steadily pursued questions of central importance. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ad hominem, Casey Luskin, Dave Farina, evolution, honor, intelligent design, Internet, misinformation, Professor Dave, propaganda, Stephen Meyer, trolls, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Postscript: “Professor Dave” and His Attack on Me

_{Günter Bechly
December 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While it was an affair of honor to defend others, I personally do not consider Farina to be a worthy opponent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Keating, Christianity, cosmologists, debate, Design Inference, faith, intelligent design, Into the Impossible, James Tour, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, natural philosophers, New Atheists, proselytizing, Rice University, Roman Catholic, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, UC San Diego}

Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

_{David Klinghoffer
December 12, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
Tagged
, children, civilization, copper, Greece, Homo naledi, Iraq, Lee Berger, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, owls, pulses, Quartz, Rising Star Cave, Shanidar Cave, South Africa, University of Liverpool, Zagros Mountains}

Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 12, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science

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Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, convergence, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Galápagos Islands, genetic information, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, Michael Behe, microevolution, mutations, peer-reviewed journals, Professor Dave, speciation, Stephen Meyer, waiting-time problem, young people, YouTubers}

“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

_{Günter Bechly
December 12, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 11, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, COVID-19, Daily Mail, death, Death with Dignity, doctor, homelessness, lethal injection, lockdown, MAiD, media, medical assistance in dying, poverty, PTSD}

Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2022

Medicine, Science

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In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, Evolution News, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, parts, Steve Laufmann, system, Tod Butterfield, Your Design Body}

Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, cognitive abilities, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, miRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs, Disney, Early Paleocene, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, Plesiadapiformes, primates, rodents, sirenians, Triceratops}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anchiornis, Archaeopteryx, Aurornis, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Marshall, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, dino-fuzz, Early Triassic, feathers, homology, information, intelligent design, keratin, Luis Chiappe, mammals, marine reptiles, Mario Coiro, PragerU, Professor Dave, proteins, Richard Buggs, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, scales, Stephen Meyer, Twitter, Wikipedia, Xiaotingia}

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2022

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›