Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 7, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, material processes, podcasts, science, scientific materialism, scientism, The Magician's Twin}

Thus Saith the Science: C. S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 7, 2025

Ethics, Faith & Science

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Progress is an appealing idea, but what happens when we do not all desire the same things? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, closed-mindedness, COVID-19, freedom, government, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, natural world, pandemic, physical science, podcast, privacy, public health, science, scientism, scientists, technocracy, The Magician's Twin}

From C. S. Lewis, Prophetic Warnings on Science and Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, engineering, evolution, False Messiah, function, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, intelligent design, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, reptiles, scales, sunflowers}

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, ACLU, Discovery Science, Hollywood, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Pennsylvania, religion}

At Dover, the Comical Egotism of Judge Jones Had Serious Consequences

_{David Klinghoffer
December 4, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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The intrusion of ego in judicial proceedings, as in science and medicine, is not just inappropriate but a professional betrayal. Read More ›

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Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Center for Science and Culture, Christmas, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, holiday season, intelligent design, jokes, knowledge, scientific evidence, shipping, tax, weather}

For Christmas, Share the Evidence of Nature’s Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
December 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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There’s still time to do your Christmas shopping early! Better still, if you shop for our books now, you’ll enjoy a 40 percent discount. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, church, conscience, freedom, Ontario, private schools, Quebec, religion, religious schools, synagogue, theocracy}

In Medicine and More, Canada Blazes a Trail to Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some worry about theocracies. But Canada is demonstrating that a secularocracy can be just as suppressing of comity and human freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, Arctic, Aristotle, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, biosphere, blood-clotting cascade, blubber, cetaceans, Chance and Necessity, CHNOPS, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, duality, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, feathers, function, Jaques Monod, language, marine iguanas, Mass, Michael Behe, penguins, physical reality, property, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, structure, structure-function relationship, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 3, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, asymmetry, Brian Miller, Ellie Feder, ID the Future, intelligent cause, laws of nature, math, mathematics, Max Tegmark, multiverse, physics, Physics to God, podcasts, Science Uprising, selection, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 3, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

3}

According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 3, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, cosmic fine-tuning, electrons, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, gravitation, gravitational constant, gravity, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, laws of nature, life, lottery, Max Tegmark, nucleus, physical existence, physics, Physics to God, superintellect, Theory of Everything, universe}

Beyond Cosmic Fine-Tuning: Intelligent Design in the Laws of Nature

_{Brian Miller
December 3, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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There is only one way to explain why our universe is governed by such simple and elegant laws that support life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, structure, What Is Life?}

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025

Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›