Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 9, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alain Beauvilain, Ardipithecus, bipedality, Chad, femur, fossil record, Graecopithecus, hominins, John Hawks, mandible, Miocene, Miocene apes, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), Orrorin, paleontology, Paris, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahara Desert, Sahelanthropus, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, skull, University of Poitiers}

Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal

_{Günter Bechly
September 9, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, illusion, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, qualia, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, scientific explanation, self}

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2022

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science

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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›

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Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular machinery, Energy, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Story Short, molecular machines, natural processes, podcast, prebiotic chemicals, Rob Stadler}

Energy Harnessing: Achilles Heel for the Origin of Life

_{Science and Culture
September 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This isn’t the sort of hurdle that mindless natural processes can overcome, but it is precisely the sort of problem that a designing mind could solve. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, capillary action, evolutionary theory, Flight: The Genius of Birds, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, intelligent design, nectar, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, promissory note, University of Connecticut}

A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design

_{David Coppedge
September 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Did evolutionary theory contribute anything to this study? The authors speculate briefly about “co-evolution” of flowers and their pollinators. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Julian Baggini, music, neuroscience, orchestra, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Great Guide}

Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, astrophysicists, Big Bang, COVID-19, denial, denialism, disinformation, Eric Lerner, Frank Turek, hysteria, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, pseudoscience, Return of the God Hypothesis, Space.com, Stephen Meyer, Vaccines}

Stephen Meyer: No, the Big Bang Hasn’t Been “Disproven”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 7, 2022

Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

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Today, the mark of genuine disinformation is, often, the repeated, robotic use of the word "disinformation." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, Charles University, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Johannes Gutenberg, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, conflict myth, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, faith, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, lunar phases, Michael Keas, Moon, religion, Science, scientism, Venus, YouTube videos}

Michael Keas: Faith, Science, and the Phases of Venus

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Keas explains, among things, the role that Venus with its phases, like those of our Moon, played in advancing astronomy into the modern age. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, DNA, electrostatics, enzymes, evolution, helicase, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinetics, membranes, molecules, mRNA, ncRNAs, PNAS, RNA, transcription, University of Toronto, University of Washington}

The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding

_{David Coppedge
September 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Imaging techniques down to the picometer scale are permitting detection of previously unknown alliances of cellular software with electrostatics and mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, bread, commitment, Dallas, Darwinism, evolution, Jason Rosenhouse, mental illness, police, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

_{William A. Dembski
September 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›