Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, Bonfire of the Vanities, cosmogony, Genesis, Headlong Hall, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Oxford English Dictionary, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, Steady State, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Thomas Love Peacock, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, astronomers, astrophysicists, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, James Webb Space Telescope, London, Lost in Math, Paul Steinhardt, Rob Sheldon, Sabine Hossenfelder, Standard Model, The Big Bang Never Happened, University of Kansas, Yale University}

Does the James Webb Space Telescope Show that the Big Bang Didn’t Happen?

_{Science and Culture
August 18, 2022

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics

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The unexpected new data coming back from the telescope are inspiring panic among astronomers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, equity, Evolution News, funding, inclusion, J. Scott Turner, kickbacks, money, National Association of Scholars, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Purpose and Desire, senators, South Africa, taxpayers, universities, wokeness}

Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, Early Church, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, abortion, African Americans, assisted suicide, babies, bias, censorship, culture, extremists, human being, media, morality, opinion, Politics, public health, Racism, religion, Roman Catholic, Supreme Court}

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2022

Ethics, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Many abortion absolutists claim that pro-lifers are “racist” because restrictions on abortion will “disproportionately” impact women of color. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, artistry, biophysicists, bones, dinosaurs, earth, elephant, engineers, gravity, Mass, Michael Denton, natural selection, physical laws, prior fitness, Privileged Species, quadrupeds, sauropods, Science Advances, The Miracle of Man, Ultrasaurus, University of Queensland, weight}

Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

_{David Coppedge
August 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Michael Denton has shown that humans must be the right size to use fire and create technology. What about size limits on big animals? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Denis Noble, DNA, embryo, evolution, evolutionary biology, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fruit flies, Gerd Müller, horse, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Neo-Darwinism, Raju Pookottil, Royal Society, Susan Mazur, Third Way of Evolution, Why Evolution Is True, Zombie Science (book)}

Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

_{Jonathan Wells
August 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

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No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
August 15, 2022

Evolution, Science

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, evolution, ID the Future, materialism, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, parabola, Paul Nelson, podcast, scientists}

Paul Nelson: Freeing Minds Trapped in a Naturalistic Parabola

_{Science and Culture
August 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Philosopher of biology Paul Nelson talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a science culture committed to naturalism. Read More ›