Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beetle, bivalve, Cretaceous, Darwinian theory, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, holotype, Japan, Japanese, Miocene, mollusk, Research, sea snake}

Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
October 7, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking. Read More ›

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Date
October 6, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anti-science, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, Europe, house arrest, human dignity, ID the Future, John West, medicine, podcast, Science, scientific evidence, United States, vaccination, Wesley Smith, yeast}

Listen: Demonizers and Dehumanizers

_{Science and Culture
October 6, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

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John West urges supporters of vaccinations to meet the other side not with insults but with reasoned discourse and scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, California, Caltech, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cnidaria, dolphins, flippers, George Washington University, Illustra Media, jellyfish, John Dabiri, Lad Allen, Living Waters, Phys.org, salmon, sea lion, sea turtles, The Conversation}

Secrets that Give Sea Lions and Jellyfish Their Edge as Swimmers

_{David Coppedge
October 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The world’s best human designers are attempting to build machines to mimic what these animals “naturally do. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Brights, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Max Planck, New Atheists, quantum weirdness, superstition, Werner Heisenberg, worldview}

Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

_{Neil Thomas
October 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, creation, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, French Revolution, Jacques Monod, John Milton, Lucretius, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, spontaneous generation, theodicy, Thomas Paine}

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Armed Forces, Cell (journal), chemotherapy, Clodagh O’Shea, DNA, enzymes, evolution, Heidelberg University, human genome, intelligent design, North Carolina State University, orchestra, proofreading, protocols, ribosomes, specialists, sunlight, University of Geneva, University of Heidelberg, University of Toronto}

Armed Forces in the Cell Keep DNA Healthy

_{David Coppedge
October 4, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Science reporters struggle for metaphors to describe the complex operations they see going on in the cell. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2022

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, creator, Elon Musk, human beings, Jay Richards, machines, meat machines, myths, Science Uprising, Stephen Hawking, The Human Advantage, work}

Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2022

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science, Technology

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It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Annie Besant, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, conflict myth, Erasmus Darwin, history, materialism, New Atheists, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Malthus, UK Parliament}

Darwin and the “New Atheists”

_{Neil Thomas
October 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There is surely some historical irony in the attempt to enlist Charles Darwin posthumously in defense of the atheist cause. Read More ›

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Date
October 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, criminology, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, humans, Italy, materialism, racial struggle, Racism, Richard Weikart, The Descent of Man, Turin}

Darwinian Racism, Past and Present

_{Science and Culture
October 3, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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John West discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, and Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 3, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, data, fossils, Germany, Günter Bechly, hominins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel Prize, paleontologists, paleontology, Politics, Svante Pääbo}

New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins

_{David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›