Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
April 7, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, air, carbohydrates, chemical reactions, chemicals, DNA, earth, first life, homochirality, information processing, lipids, metabolism, molecules, nanomachines, natural processes, nucleic acids, panspermia, proteins, RNA, sunlight, synthetic chemists, water}

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

_{James M. Tour
April 7, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, black holes, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, fundamental forces, geophysics, habitability, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, physical constants, physicists, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, universe}

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 6, 2023

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›

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Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, censorship, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, free speech, ID the Future, National Science Teaching Association, podcast}

Did the National Science Teaching Association Just Muzzle … Darwin?

_{Science & Culture
April 5, 2023

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

1}

Herman Bouma warns of what has been described as the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” but he also says he hasn’t given up. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, Pleistocene, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Belgium, civilization, culture, emotions, feelings, females, gender, gender dysphoria, Germany, males, society, thought, transgenderism}

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences

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The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP synthase, bacterial cell, cells, complexity, DNA, efficiency, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary biologists, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural selection, PNAS, proofreading, proteins, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Uppsala University}

Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, New York Times, orcas}

Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

2}

I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox. Read More ›

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Date
April 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic information, ID the Future, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, novelty, oxygen, podcast}

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

_{Science & Culture
April 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Social Sciences
Tagged
, agency, computer science, economy, ecosystems, evolution, innovation, intelligent design, naturalism, ontology, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, teleology}

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

_{Paul Nelson
March 31, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Social Sciences

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›