Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Science
Tagged
, books, Charles Darwin, DNA, fiction, ID the Future, molecular biology, Nickell John Romjue, novels, podcast, time travel}

If Darwin Visited the 21st Century

_{Science and Culture
September 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Physics, Science

1}

Charles Darwin learns about DNA and the other discoveries of molecular biology that have occurred since he developed his theory. Read More ›

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Date
September 17, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, clitoris, Europe, gender affirmation, gender dysphoria, hysterectomy, information, medicine, mental health, Michael Egnor, National Health Service, patients, penis, scrotum, Seattle, surgery, teenagers, testicles, United States, University of Washington}

Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Culture
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, bestsellers, Dogs, English, Humanize, New York Times, novels, Pennsylvania, transhumanism, writing}

Wesley Smith Talks with Dean Koontz: Human Exceptionalism, Meaning in Life, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2022

Arts, Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism

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Dean and Wesley discuss how Dean came to be an author, the importance of human exceptionalism, and the problem with transhumanism. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Science
Tagged
, bees, biosphere, birds, goal, gymnosperms, honey, intelligent design, natural phenomena, nests, organisms, pollen, predation, prey, purpose, ruminants, salmon, science of purpose, snakes, wolves}

Defining the “Science of Purpose”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 16, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science

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The "science of purpose" is new to the analytic framework, and is thus obliged to make the case for its claim to validity. Read More ›

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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

11}

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

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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

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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

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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

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