Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
July 24, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anthropologists, COVID-19, health, Linköping University, Rutgers University, safety, Sapiens, smell, University of Manchester}

The Nose Really Does Know, It Turns Out…

_{Science and Culture
July 24, 2022

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Anosmia, the loss of a sense of smell, affects up to 80 percent of COVID sufferers. However long it lasts, it is a health and safety concern. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Europe, faith, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian culture, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Egnor, Middle Ages, podcast, Renaissance}

Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christian Culture and the Rise of Modern Science

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2022

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Egnor addresses the claim that the rise of atheism has somehow been a boon to science. Not so, Egnor says. Read More ›

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Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alysson Muotri, autism, birth, brains, consciousness, dementia, embryos, motor neuron disease, New Scientist, organoids, sentience, skin cells, Stanford University, UC San Diego}

Yikes, Lab-Grown Brains Are Getting Closer

_{Science and Culture
July 22, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The excitement is the prospect of better understanding and treatment of dementia, autism, and motor neuron disease (ALS). Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, common sense, companionship, confidentiality, consciousness, conversation, emotions, fear, Google, humans, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, meditation, Non-Computable You, psychologists, reading, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, spirituality, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

_{Amanda Witt
July 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Charles Darwin, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, insects, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, Natural History Museum, paleontologists, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, Willi Hennig}

Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 22, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›

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Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birds, brain, clams, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, invertebrates, jumping genes, junk DNA, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, mammals, marine invertebrates, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution}

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Auten, Chad Gross, evolution, Francis Collins, geologists, ID 3.0, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, Nobel laureates, peer-reviewed literature, podcast, Research, rhetoric, theistic evolution}

Luskin: Why Intelligent Design over Theistic Evolution?

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, beetles, biosphere, Coleoptera, environmental DNA, ETH Zurich, foresight, Lepidoptera, Michael Denton, microbes, plastics, pollutants, pollution, polyethylene, polymers, potassium, The Miracle of Man, UC Riverside, University of Queensland}

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

_{David Coppedge
July 21, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, barbarism, crime, Darwinism, Darwinism as religion, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, paleontology, Seattle, theism}

A Paleontologist Explains Intelligent Design to You

_{David Klinghoffer
July 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Günter Bechly describes the species pair challenge, the waiting time problem, and much more that Darwinists can't explain. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, brain, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Current Biology, Ediacaran Period, evo-devo, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, morphology, nervous system, newspapers, oxygen level, phyla, Stephen Meyer, USSR}

This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

_{David Coppedge
July 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›