Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

_{Science and Culture
November 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creed, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William Hale White, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, Caltech, Cell Reports, cells, condensates, David Klinghoffer, droplets, epigenetics, genome, Hospital for Sick Children, John Innes Centre, marching band, metabolism, Modern Synthesis, molecular machines, Neo-Darwinism, organelles, p53 protein, Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, The Scientist, Toronto, University of Konstanz}

Epigenetics Directs Genetics — And That’s a Problem for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
November 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The ability to sequence genomes was a great accomplishment. But there is something over and above genes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, evolution, faith, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking}

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Medicine

4}

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›

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Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, consciousness, dog, electron, Eugene Wigner, human consciousness, Nobel Prize, observations, observer, placebo, prayer, quantum mechanics, thought experiment}

As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?

_{Science and Culture
November 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Eucharist, Europe, Godhead, history, India, Jesus Christ, John Keats, John Milton, Middle Ages, Middle East, nature, Paradise Lost, poets, Protestant Reformation, Roman Catholic, Thomas Aquinas, William Hale White, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

_{Neil Thomas
November 7, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Andrei Linde, assumptions, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmic inflation, empirical evidence, Energy, galaxies, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, planets, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, scalar field, Scientific American, stars, universe, YouTube videos}

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

_{Brian Miller
November 7, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 6, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, earth, Heaven, Hell, hierophany, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, romanticism, Rudolf Otto, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

_{Neil Thomas
November 6, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 5, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alexander Pope, bestseller, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Lake District, nature, poets, tourists, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

_{Neil Thomas
November 5, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, birds, bread, cheese, chimpanzees, cuttlefish, Homer, humans, intelligence, Stanford University, timing}

Researchers: More Intelligent Jays Show More Self-Control

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The researchers say that the same relationship holds true for cuttlefish, chimpanzees, and humans. Read More ›