Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular machinery, Energy, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Story Short, molecular machines, natural processes, podcast, prebiotic chemicals, Rob Stadler}

Energy Harnessing: Achilles Heel for the Origin of Life

_{Science and Culture
September 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This isn’t the sort of hurdle that mindless natural processes can overcome, but it is precisely the sort of problem that a designing mind could solve. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, capillary action, evolutionary theory, Flight: The Genius of Birds, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, intelligent design, nectar, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, promissory note, University of Connecticut}

A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design

_{David Coppedge
September 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Did evolutionary theory contribute anything to this study? The authors speculate briefly about “co-evolution” of flowers and their pollinators. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Julian Baggini, music, neuroscience, orchestra, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Great Guide}

Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, astrophysicists, Big Bang, COVID-19, denial, denialism, disinformation, Eric Lerner, Frank Turek, hysteria, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, pseudoscience, Return of the God Hypothesis, Space.com, Stephen Meyer, Vaccines}

Stephen Meyer: No, the Big Bang Hasn’t Been “Disproven”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 7, 2022

Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

3}

Today, the mark of genuine disinformation is, often, the repeated, robotic use of the word "disinformation." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, Charles University, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Johannes Gutenberg, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, conflict myth, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, faith, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, lunar phases, Michael Keas, Moon, religion, Science, scientism, Venus, YouTube videos}

Michael Keas: Faith, Science, and the Phases of Venus

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Keas explains, among things, the role that Venus with its phases, like those of our Moon, played in advancing astronomy into the modern age. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, DNA, electrostatics, enzymes, evolution, helicase, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinetics, membranes, molecules, mRNA, ncRNAs, PNAS, RNA, transcription, University of Toronto, University of Washington}

The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding

_{David Coppedge
September 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Imaging techniques down to the picometer scale are permitting detection of previously unknown alliances of cellular software with electrostatics and mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, bread, commitment, Dallas, Darwinism, evolution, Jason Rosenhouse, mental illness, police, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

_{William A. Dembski
September 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science and Culture
September 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Charles Darwin, evolution, fantasy, fiction, fossil record, fossils, history, ID the Future, Nickell John Romjue, novella, podcast}

Acquainting Darwin with the Fossil Record

_{Science and Culture
September 4, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Romjue’s Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since Darwin’s time on Earth — and it’s not what he expects. Read More ›