Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Geology
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, biominerals, bones, carbon, exoplanets, James Webb Space Telescope, Mars, Mercury, meteorites, microbes, minerals, oxygen, pyrite, Robert Hazen, shells, teeth}

Biominerals Could Predict Life on Exoplanets

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2022

Geology, Physical Sciences, Science

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One-third of minerals — chemical solids whose atoms are highly ordered — are created directly or indirectly by life forms. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortionists, babies, consent, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctors, execution, fetus, health, heart disease, incompetence, killing, laws, medicine, mothers, negligence, obstetricians, Roe v. Wade, suicide, unborn}

Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

_{Michael Egnor
August 2, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

6}

A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, Aldous Huxley, Annie Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Willey, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Crisis of Doubt, evolution, Madame Blavatsky, On the Origin of Species, secularism, secularists, Sherlock Holmes, spiritualism, Theosophy, Timothy Larsen, William Shakespeare}

Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias

_{Neil Thomas
August 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

11}

How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›

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Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, astronomers, atheism, Cambridge University, galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Newsweek, physicists, podcast, Stephen Meyer, telescope, theism, universe}

James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports

_{Science and Culture
August 2, 2022

Physical Sciences, Science

1}

The Webb telescope can see far enough to witness galaxies from the very early universe. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Crisis of Doubt, Dover Beach, Edward Aveling, Erasmus Darwin, In Memoriam, James Moore, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Oxbridge, Robert Chambers, secularism, The Rights of Man, Timothy Larsen, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorian England}

Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
August 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

10}

The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, atheism, Augustinian Proof, Big Bang, Edward Feser, eternity, God Hypothesis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, infinity, Jerry Coyne, numbers, omnipotence, Plato, Platonic forms, solar system, St. Augustine, sun, theism, universals}

Mathematics and the God Hypothesis

_{Michael Egnor
August 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Metaphysics

5}

There is a classical proof of God’s existence that uses universal concepts such as mathematics, proposed most prominently by St. Augustine. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, boron, bromine, ceramics, charcoal, copper, diamond, fertilizer, Geophysical Research Letters, glass, Guillermo Gonzalez, iron, Jay Richards, magnesium, metalloenzymes, Mojave Desert, Periodic Table, plate tectonics, prior fitness, Privileged Species, semiconductors, SpaceX, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Privileged Planet, Turkey}

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

10}

The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals? Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, human dignity, ID the Future, John West, materialism, nature, podcast, scientific racism, Western culture}

John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Political Science

1}

Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer review, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, The Lancet, Vaccines}

Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

3}

Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Physics
Science
Tagged
, adulthood, Bethlehem, cattle, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, elephants, eukaryotic cells, genetic code, human mind, Isaac Newton, lactase persistence, lactose, metabolism, milk, molecular machines, mutations, nucleotides, Pennsylvania, sugar, weather, worms}

Much Ado About Lactase Persistence

_{Michael Behe
July 29, 2022

Evolution, Physics, Science

5}

Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.” Read More ›