Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

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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

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

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, angstroms, ATP, cilia, ciliopathies, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, membranes, Michael Behe, molecular machines, organelles, Science (journal), Science Advances, University of Basel, voltage, Washington University}

Grand Central Station and Beyond: Molecular Machines Visualized in 3-D

_{David Coppedge
September 29, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Cryo-electron microscopy is allowing cell biologists to see irreducibly complex molecular machines in three-dimensional glory. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biomolecules, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), genetic information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, life, National Center for Biotechnology Information, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, prebiotic Earth, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Stephen Meyer, Walter Bradley}

An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 29, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arno Penzias, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Caltech, cosmic origins, Energy, gerald schroeder, James Webb Space Telescope, matter, Nobel laureates, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, universe}

On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 28, 2022

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science

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Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, American South, ants, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Connecticut, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, On the Origin of Species, race, racial superiority, Racism, scientific racism, slavery, Victorian England, Yankee Stadium}

Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 28, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

2}

We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Canada, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, hero, materialists, microfossils, miracle, Nobel Prize, Quebec, Scientific American}

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Biology Teacher, Brian Miller, cells, cellular machinery, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA, enzymes, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Frank Salisbury, genetic code, information, intelligent agents, Jeremy England, molecular machines, physicists, RNA, simplest cell}

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 27, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 26, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, CERN, cosmic microwave background, God Hypothesis, initial conditions, intelligent design, Large Hadron Collider, mass-energy, quantum gravity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Hawking, universe}

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology

_{Brian Miller
September 26, 2022

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

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Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Read More ›