Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

1}

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

6}

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 ›

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Date
July 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Auten, Casey Luskin, Chad Gross, COVID-19, creationism, evidence, ID 3.0, ID the Future, intelligent design, pandemic, podcast, Research, revelation, South Africa}

Luskin: Intelligent Design’s Past, Present, and Future

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Dr. Luskin also makes the case that ID is science. It’s based on physical evidence rather than religious revelation, and it makes testable predictions. Read More ›

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Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, cave paintings, evolution, humans, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, paleontology, Spain, Stone Age}

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

_{Science and Culture
July 19, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Abraham, atheism, Big Bang, Brian Keating, Dennis Prager Show, heavens, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Return of the God Hypothesis, stars, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego}

Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
July 19, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

4}

I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›