Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Age of Exploration, animals, Arthur Lovejoy, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Edward Young, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theories, F. W. J. Schelling, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, James Burnett, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Robinet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, Night-Thoughts, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, scientific paradigms, sea creaturess, The Discarded Image, The Great Chain of Being, University of Chicago, worldview, Zoonomia}

Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

_{Daniel Witt
May 28, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, differential, DNA, evolution, gap divergence, genetic code, genetic difference, genomes, Gorilla gorilla, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, intelligent design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), orangutans, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, primates, Progressive Cactus, signage, single nucleotide variation, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, telomere, University of Johannesburg}

Letter to the Smithsonian

_{Casey Luskin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation's own Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), ape genomes, autosomes, biologists, biology, chimpanzees, chromosomes, common descent, diploidal genome, gap divergence, genome, genomic analysis, genomic differences, haploid, human exceptionalism, human genome, humans, Nature (journal), non-sex chromosomes, nucleotides, Progressive Cactus, Research, sex chromosomes, single nucleotide variations, software, Supplementary Data}

Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

_{Casey Luskin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biochemical activities, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Epimenides of Crete, evolution, Genesis, genome, genomic studies, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, aneuploidy, biology, biologyu, cancer, cancer cells, cell fusion, cell proliferation, cells, chromatids, chromosomal instability, chromosome, chromosome missegregation, cohesin ring, cytokinesis failure, DNA, E-Cadherin, endoreduplication, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, micronuclei, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, proteasome, securin, separase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tetraploidization, tetraploidy, tumorigenesis, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Barbara Wagstaff, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Fractofusus, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, John Long, Journal of the Geological Society, Justin Jackson, Live Science, mammoth, Marcin Ambrozik, Modura, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, Saint James, The Conversation, tiktaalik, true cross, University of Melbourne, Vera Korasidis}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

12}

Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves}

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 24, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, environments, evolutionary icons, Günter Bechly, humans, immaterial genome, Michael Levin, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, science education, science media, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, zookeepers, zoos}

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), American Museum of Natural History, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common decent, de novo, Emily Reeves, human exceptionalism, human genome, humans, ID the Future, National Geographic, new york, order of magnitude, podcast, Science (journal), Scientific American}

Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 23, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzees, common ancestry, DNA, evolution, gap differences, genetic difference, genetic similarity, genome, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), protein-coding regions, Smithsonian Institution, waiting-time problem}

What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences?

_{Casey Luskin
May 23, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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We have broken a major story about a recently published study showing that the human and chimp genomes are 14.0 percent to 14.9 percent different. Read More ›