Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Arts
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent agents, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form}

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 27, 2025

Anatomy, Arts, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Read More ›

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Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Allan CP, animals, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Douglas Axe, evolution, faith and science, genetic distance, homeschool students, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, origin of life, parents, Paul Nelson, Robert J. Marks, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer, The Science Dilemma, Thomas Woodward, William A. Dembski, young people}

Watch: Casey Luskin Debunks the “1 Percent” Myth

_{Science and Culture
June 27, 2025

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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On a new podcast, Dr. Luskin explains the science that refutes the myth about humans and chimpanzees being separated by a genetic distance of just 1 percent. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Battle of the Big Bang, Big Bang, black hole, conundrums, designed universe, Elie Feder, mind, multiverse, Niayesh Afshordi, Paul Sutter, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, quantum particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Singularity, Stony Brook University, string theory, uncertainty, universe}

The Very “Nature of the Universe” Puzzles Physicists

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities. Read More ›

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Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheists, birth canal, brain-stem aneurysm, carbon-dioxide spikes, Carl Sagan, Carol Zaleski, clinical death, Denyse O'Leary, endorphins, Gandalf, Howard Storm, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, My Descent into Death, near-death experiences, neurosurgery, Pam Reynolds, podcast, psychedelic chemistry, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Spetzler, skull, Stony Brook University, temporal-lobe seizures, The Immortal Mind, The Lord of the Rings, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

_{Science and Culture
June 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Amazon, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), CHM13, common ancestry, DNA, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, Han Chinese, human exceptionalism, human-human genetic differences, humans, Jared Diamond, Joel Duff, junk DNA, Nature Communications, non-alignable DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern}

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter?

_{Casey Luskin
June 26, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Read More ›

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Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, appetite, Aristotle, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, guilt, Heaven, humans, intellect, Israel, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, neuroscience, pets, reason, Roman Catholic, Seattle, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Egnor and Koch Debate the Soul…and Talk Dogs

_{Science and Culture
June 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australian Aboriginals, brain, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, compartmentalization, creationism, Darwinism, digestive system, dualism, evolution, false dilemma, hereditarianism, human lineages, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, IQ gap, J. B. S. Haldane, lungs, men, Native Americans, natural selection, Nicobar Islands, Personality and Individual Differences, Racism, random variation, retconning, savages, skin, sub-Saharan Africans, tails, women}

21st-Century Darwinism’s Impossible Situation

_{Daniel Witt
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), deletions, DNA, genes, genetics, genome assemblies, genome sequencing, genomes, humans, insertions, junk DNA, Nature (journal), Supplemental Data, technical failures, telomeres}

Are the New Ape Genomes Reliable?

_{Casey Luskin
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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We have good reasons to believe that these differences are reliable and real and even represent functional, meaningful DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Andrew McDiarmid, bonobos, Bornean orangutans, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, DNA, genetics, genomes, gorillas, humans, junk DNA, Nature (journal), Pan paniscus, reality, Research, siamangs, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Sumatran orangutans}

Why Is the 1 Percent Myth So Beloved?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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When a belief conflicts with common sense present-day reality, it is usually upholding an irrational value. Read More ›