Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 4, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, aging, dementia, Dogs, health, Hungary, memory, mice, neuroscience, Texas A&M, University of Arizona, University of Washington}

Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? It Depends

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 4, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Not much is known for sure about how dogs age. The Dog Aging Project aims to change that through systematic research programs. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common ancestry, common design, CRISPR-Cas9, dependency graph, Discovery Institute, Dogs, evolution, genetic code, genetic similarity, Gutsick Gibbon, health, intelligent design, S. Joshua Swamidass, separate ancestry, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

_{Emily Reeves
August 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates}

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

_{David Coppedge
August 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

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Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›

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Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Botany
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, animals, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, designer, ID the Future, intelligent design, multiverse, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Generic Intelligent Design, the Multiverse, or One God?

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2022

Botany, Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Stephen Meyer examines the multiverse theory and why it fails to explain away the insistent evidence of a cosmic designer. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, conscience rights, COVID-19, culture, dementia, effective referral, euthanasia, lockdown, loneliness, mental illness, Ontario, organ harvesting, suicide prevention, United States}

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›

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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

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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

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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

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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 ›