Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, molluscs, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostic, atheism, Big Bang, Christianity, deism, Deity, intelligent design, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, pantheism, physical existence, Return of the God Hypothesis, revelation, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer, Charlie Kirk: Return of WHAT God Hypothesis?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

1}

A listener says he is not an atheist, but an agnostic, and evidently a searcher. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Botany
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán, dreaming, electrons, Günter Bechly, human consciousness, humans, materialists, Michael Egnor, naturalists, panpsychism, philosophers, spiders}

Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 1, 2022

Botany, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Tagged
, abortion, culture, eugenics, gun control, Harvard University, ideology, journals, morality, Politics, Science (journal), scientific establishment, Supreme Court, United States, wokeness}

How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 1, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics

5}

Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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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

4}

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 ›