Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, chordates, Darwinism, Devonian Period, echinoderms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genitals, Germany, Henry Gee, homology, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), paleontology, Paleozoic, tunicates, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2022

Anatomy, Paleontology, Science

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It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›

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Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Discovery Institute, faith, gnosticism, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, materialists, Philadelphia, podcast, theistic evolution, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary}

Debate Over Design in the Early Church Is Eerily Current

_{Science and Culture
September 15, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

1}

The early Christians debated the Greco-Roman materialists but also the religious Gnostics of their day. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, democracy, ideology, morality, Nature (journal), policy, Politico, Politics, pregnancy, religion, Science (journal), Supreme Court, technocracy, truth}

Another Prestigious Science Journal Conflates Science with Politics and Pushes for Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics, Philosophy

4}

If anything is a “war on science,” it is publishing ideological articles like this in what is supposed to be a science journal. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, bacteria, CAD/CAM, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DNA, DNA repair, evolution, gears, Germany, Helmholtz Association, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, microbe, molecular machines, mutations, Nature (journal), Research, rotors}

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
September 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Australia, C.S. Lewis, Cambrian Explosion, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Griffith University, intelligent design, molecular machines, pizza, Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, Trinity College}

Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under

_{Thomas E. Woodward
September 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

2}

While I packed for my July/August speaking tour of Queensland, Australia, science writer Stephen Buranyi dropped an 11-page bombshell in London. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, "poor design", agnostics, ankle, anterior cruciate ligament, appendix, atheism, bones, Bristol University, Cambridge University, evolution, evolutionary assumptions, Human Errors, intelligent design, knee, motion, Nathan Lents, retina, shoulders, skeletal joints, Stuart Burgess, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, wisdom teeth, wrist}

Burgess: Claims of “Poor Design” in Skeletal Joints Are Based on Critics’ Lack of Training in Engineering

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science

5}

Burgess’s lecture confronts one of the most common abuses of science aimed at suppressing the evidence for design in biology. Read More ›

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Date
September 14, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, ballet, Copenhagen interpretation, cosmic inflation, elementary particles, Elon Musk, eternal inflation, fluctuations, James Webb Space Telescope, many-worlds hypothesis, multiverse, Nobel Prize, physicists, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, science and religion, string theory, universe}

Is the Multiverse Science or Religion?

_{Science and Culture
September 14, 2022

Cosmology, Physics

4}

Or pseudoscience? A no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, evolution, fertilization, history, insects, intelligent design, John Murray, Linnean Society, monograph, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Sigmund Freud, William Paley}

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

_{Robert Shedinger
September 13, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, evil, genocide, Moral Law, morals, Ontological Argument, preferences, PZ Myers, taste}

Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Unwittingly Acknowledge God’s Existence

_{Michael Egnor
September 13, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Epistemology, Faith & Science

3}

Actually, Christians don’t ask, “Where do your morals come from?” in order to call atheists evil. Read More ›

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Date
September 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, cells, Chernobyl, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, first cell, fungus, glucose, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Story Short, natural causes, podcast, Rob Stadler, Stairway to Life}

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

_{Science and Culture
September 12, 2022

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

3}

What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation? Read More ›