Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, DNA, early Earth, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Gerald Joyce, information sequence problem, intelligent design, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, Scientific Reports, Stanley Miller, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley}

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Charles Darwin, Down House, evolution, fiction, future, ID the Future, materialism, Nickell John Romjue, novels, podcast, teleology, time travel}

Listen: Darwin Returns from the Future

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the 21st century. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, cell membrane, cells, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), James Tour, lipid bilayer, oxidation, plasma membrane, Rice University, Sidney Fox, waste products}

The “Clumping” Problem and the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 23, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In the 1970s, biochemist Sidney Fox and colleagues believed they had uncovered primitive cell membrane-like structures called protenoid microspheres. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assault, gender affirmation, health, malpractice, medical ethics, medical school, medicine, neurosurgery, patients, public education, surgeons, surgery, The Federalist}

Dr. Michael Egnor: “Operating on Healthy Bodies Defies Surgical Ethics”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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"A well-performed operation is still malpractice (or even assault) if it is not done for valid medical reasons." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, Cosmic Background Radiation, Eric Lerner, galaxies, galaxy formation, Genesis, Georges Lemaître, God Hypothesis, infrared radiation, James Webb Space Telescope, materialism, media, photon, redshift, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, tired light, universe}

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›

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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

3}

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

5}

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

1}

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 ›