Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

2}

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

3}

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, Brooklyn, California, children, fertility, gestation, health insurance, IVF, males, medicine, New York City, pathology, The Guardian, transgenderism, uterus}

Why We Will Never Control Medical Costs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 3, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

4}

The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness. Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Epicurus, ID the Future, intelligent design, Leonard Susskind, Marvel Cinematic Universe, multiverse, popular culture, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

The Multiverse: From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2022

Bioethics, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Andrew McDiarmid explores the roots of the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Read More ›

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Date
October 1, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Closer to Truth, J.P. Moreland, mind, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, spirit}

J. P. Moreland: Is the Human Mind Immortal?

_{Science and Culture
October 1, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Philosopher J. P. Moreland is a Fellow with the Center for Science & Culture. He offers some thoughts. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, American College of Physicians, Arizona, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, medicine, Nebraska, new york, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, University of California San Francisco}

Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

4}

A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Living Waters, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, mathematical model, mutations, Ola Hössjer, Pakicetus, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, population size, Professor Dave, recombination, waiting-time problem, walking whales}

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

_{Günter Bechly
September 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

11}

These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Aristotle, ATP synthase, Charles Darwin, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwinism, evolution, Galen, intelligent design, Marcello Malpighi, Michael Behe, microscopy, mindless processes, molecular machines, turbine, William Harvey, World Magazine}

Michael Behe in World Magazine — “Game Over” for Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Behe was present at a “semi-secret” scientific gathering “whose theme was a specific controversial question: Did Darwinian evolution have any limitations?” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, AlphaFold, dictionary, DNA, English, Eugene Koonin, French National Centre for Scientific Research, genes, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, protein folding, ribosomes, sequence space, virosphere, viruses, waiting-time problem}

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

_{Paul Nelson
September 29, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

4}

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›