Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, atheism, Atlantic Ocean, BBC News, biogeography, birds, Casey Luskin, common descent, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hoatzin, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Egnor, Namibia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), rafting, rafting animals, South America, Stephen Meyer, The New Yorker, Tree of Life}

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Graham Bell, ATP synthase, Delft University of Technology, DNA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, mitochondrial membrane, New Scientist, photosynthesis, UC Riverside, University of Texas}

If Nanomotors Are Designed, Why Not Biomotors?

_{David Coppedge
July 18, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Physical chemists are justifiably proud of their tiny motors that do little more than spin. How can they say that much more complex motors in life evolved? Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Ars Technica, birds, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, genetic engineering, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information processing, John Timmer, lemurs, London School of Economics, Michael Denton, monkeys, octopuses, oxygen, primates, superintelligence, synaptic connections, The Miracle of Man}

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers}

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

_{Science and Culture
July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›

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Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, academia, Andrew McDiarmid, astronomers, autopsy, Darwinian theory, evolutionists, Gollum, history, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, Science, Times Higher Education, Tycho Brahe, Unbelievable}

The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

_{Science and Culture
July 15, 2022

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, goddess, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Crurotarsi, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, Mammaliaformes, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, churches, COVID-19, cowardice, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith, Gallup poll, groupthink, intelligent design, Newsweek, Pew Research Center, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, survey, universe, young people}

Stephen Meyer: How Misunderstood Science Drives Religious Disbelief

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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What a shame that the scientific mainstream has done such a poor job of communicating its own discoveries to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, Korea, London School of Economics, mammals, Mediterranean, memory, My Octopus Teacher, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates, warm-bloodedness}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›