Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, clouds, debates, dragon, English, evolution, gears, humans, intelligent design, Internet, Jason Rosenhouse, jumping, Michael Shermer, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Why Darwin Matters}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

_{William A. Dembski
September 1, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›

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Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, debates, evolution, genus, ID the Future, intelligent design, macroevolution, Michael Behe, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Roman Catholic, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy}

Behe Debates the Limits of Darwinian Evolution

_{Science and Culture
August 31, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Any evolution beyond the level of genus — for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs — cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, change, continuity, football, Mass, meditation, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, shape}

Philosopher: I’m Neither Me, Myself, Nor I…Yet I Give Interviews!

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger tells his interviewer “Nobody ever had or was a self. Selves are not part of reality.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, fitness function, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replicase, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, Sol Spiegelman, spaces, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, unwashed middle, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, chimpanzees, cognition, consciousness, dolphins, intelligence, invertebrates, Paco Calvo, panpsychism, ResearchGate, spiders, Venus flytrap}

Researcher Says Plants May Be Conscious, Too

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2022

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Paco Calvo has authored many papers in respected journals; his view is another instance of panpsychism overtaking materialism in science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, BioEdge, biotechnology, Brave New World, dystopia, egg cells, embryos, experimentation, illness, lifestyle, medical professionals, medicine, public opinion, selective reduction, stem cells, The Guardian, United Kingdom}

“Anything Goes” Reproduction Gathers Steam

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Medicine isn’t just about curing illness anymore. It is also a resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, biosignatures, birds, cosmos, dolphins, extraterrestrial life, Forensics, intelligence, intelligent life, intention, lion, National Geographic, space aliens, wildebeest}

The Silence of the Space Aliens

_{David Coppedge
August 30, 2022

Planetology, Rare Earth

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The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

_{William A. Dembski
August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›

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Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, aesthetics, divine intervention, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Moon, natural laws, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Roman Catholic, scientists, stars, sun, theology}

Michael Behe: It’s Not a Scientist’s Job to Be Led by Aesthetics

_{Science and Culture
August 29, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

1}

While the sun, moon, and stars move according to natural laws, it doesn’t follow that the complex forms we find in biology arose purely through natural laws. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, astrobiology, Astrobiology Magazine, calcium, carbon, chlorine, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, earth, elements, hydrogen, intelligence, intelligent design, magnesium, Mars, microbes, mineralogy, minerals, NASA, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, Robert Hazen, selenium, Stephen Jay Gould, sulfur, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

_{David Coppedge
August 29, 2022

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›