Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Adrianus Kalmjin, ampullae of Lorenzini, chondrichthyans, chondrocranium, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great white shark, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, mako shark, megalodon, Miocene, Morgan River, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, superpredators, tabloid journalists, teeth, vertebral column, vertebrates, whales}

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
August 26, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, compassion, crime, Daily Mail, death, dignity, euthanasia, guidelines, killing, MAiD, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, punishment, Spain, suffering, veterans}

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, cells, evolution, Explore Evolution, genes, intelligent design, Kansas State Board of Education, mutations, promoters, Ralph Seelke, tryptophan, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin}

Ralph Seelke: Remembering a Treasured Colleague

_{Ann Gauger
August 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

I first met you at a conference where you presented a paper on your experiment in long-term-evolution, or LTE. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, cosmogony, evolution, Glen Roy, Harvard University, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Louis Agassiz, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Platonic forms, Robert Chambers, United States}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2022

Evolution, Science

5}

A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, creation, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian mechanisms, devolution, elephants, evolution, faith, grizzly bears, ID the Future, intelligent design, Lehigh University, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, polar bears, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, skepticism, theology}

Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Being as Communion, blind search, computer science, Darwinists, evolution, fish stocks, intelligent design, machine learning, No Free Lunch, optimization, protein folding, proteins, University of Washington, William A. Dembski}

Optimization: A Key Concept in Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
August 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

6}

Portraying neo-Darwinism’s mechanisms as optimization strategies is wishful thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

7}

The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, lactase persistence, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, tuskless elephants}

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

_{Science and Culture
August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cephalopod, convergent evolution, crabs, evolution, Germany, human eye, intelligence, iris, lens, lobsters, Nautilus, octopuses, optic nerves, photoreceptors, retina, squid}

Octopus Intelligence Poses Evolutionary Convergence Conundrum

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Outstandingly bright — with eyes that strikingly resemble ours — yet their ancestors split from mammals and birds 600 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, aging, ATP synthase, bacteria, biophysicists, catalysis, cells, cilium, DNA, EMBO Journal, Emily Reeves, Evolution News, flagellum, geometry, molecular machines, nanomachines, Nature Communications, nitrogenase, RNA, Rubisco, Science (journal), Switzerland, topoisomerases, type III secretion system, UC San Diego, University of Basel, Unlocking the Mystery of Life}

Yes, a “Host of Machines” Are at Work in the Cell

_{David Coppedge
August 23, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

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Here are more cellular machines to dazzle us with their moving parts and functions. Read More ›