Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science
Tagged
, A Leg to Stand On, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Charles Thaxton, Charles University, Czech Republic, Dallas, David Hume, DNA, Douglas Axe, England, Enlightenment, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, information, information theory, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Prague, Roger Olsen, Russell Doolittle, Stephen Meyer, Texas, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science

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It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›

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Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Brian Miller, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, ID the Future, John West, living systems, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, optimization, podcast, programming, random mutations}

Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

_{Science and Culture
August 10, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, angiosperms, biosphere, carbon, copper, dairy products, earthworms, eggs, erosion, flowering plants, grass, grasses, grasslands, intelligent design, iron, magnesium, maize, meat, metalloenzymes, Michael Denton, moles, monocots, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Science (journal), zinc}

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

_{David Coppedge
August 10, 2022

Life Sciences, Science

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Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, common ancestry, Erika, evolution, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, phylogenetics, separate ancestry, synapomorphies, YouTube videos}

Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

_{Emily Reeves
August 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

3}

What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 9, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anna Ijjas, beginning, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Charlotte Hsu, Ethan Siegel, God Hypothesis, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Nina Stein, Null Energy Condition, Paul Steinhardt, Phys.org, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, theism, University of Buffalo, Will Kinney}

Science Journal Reaffirms Universe Had a Beginning, a Key Argument in Meyer’s God Hypothesis

_{Brian Miller
August 9, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

If the universe and everything in it are the result of a mind, then we are not unintended accidents of nature. Read More ›

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Date
August 9, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Age of Reason, chewing, children, face, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information, neurons, New Scientist, oxygen, reality, researchers, stars, universe, University of Southern California}

Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed

_{Science and Culture
August 9, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

3}

The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, common ancestry, common design, dependency graph, Erika, evolution, genes, genetic similarity, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, nested hierarchy, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Todd Wood, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

_{Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›

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Date
August 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, junk DNA, living systems, podcast, Science, vertebrate eye, whales}

Revolution as Scientists Treat Living Systems as Engineered

_{Science and Culture
August 8, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science

1}

This sea change in perspective is rapidly accelerating progress in experimental biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arabidopsis thaliana, cells, central dogma, Cornell University, genome, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, junk DNA, Mars, non-coding RNAs, Reductionism, RNA, University of Zurich}

Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes

_{David Coppedge
August 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

6}

There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, common ancestry, common design, dependency graph, evolution, evolutionary tree, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, randomness, synapomorphies, traits, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

_{Emily Reeves
August 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

3}

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›