Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Apollo 11, BBC, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, History Channel, humans, Ida, media, Messel, missing links, monkeys, Norway, paleontology, primates, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, artists, Baylor University, computers, creativity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, humanity, Jay Richards, john lennox, kitsch, materialism, media, propaganda, Robert J. Marks II, Science Uprising, Selmer Bringsjord, Stephen Hawking, totalitarianism, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Technology

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Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting cascade, cilium, evolution, ID the Future, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Michael Behe Answers More Reasonable Objections to Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Behe and Pat Flynn tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ammonia, atmosphere, building blocks, carbon dioxide, David Deamer, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), gases, hydrothermal vent, methane, Miller-Urey experiment, monomers, NASA, National Research Council, Nick Lane, primordial soup, Science (journal), University College London}

A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioRxiv, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Duke University, evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, intelligent design, introgression, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, University of Tübingen}

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
September 20, 2022

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, Big Bang Theory, Caleb Scharf, culture, David Papineau, free will, galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Michael Egnor, Milky Way, Robert J. Marks II, Scientific American}

Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

_{Science and Culture
September 20, 2022

Astronomy, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science

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There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Aristotle, biopolymers, building blocks, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Harold C. Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, Paris, proteins, RNA}

All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 20, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms. Read More ›

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Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, blind evolution, blood-clotting cascade, Darwin's Black Box, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Lehigh University, molecular machines, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, podcast}

Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

_{Science and Culture
September 19, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Charles Darwin, complexity, DNA, electricity, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), grass, James Clerk Maxwell, living systems, Ludwig Boltzmann, magnetism, mountains, oak tree, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, sand, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›