Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biofluorescence, bioluminescence, Captain Dave Anderson, Colombia, convergent evolution, endangered species, evolution, Florida Atlantic University, fossils, Georgia Institute of Technology, Honduras, humpback whale, intelligent design, Live Science, Living Waters, National Geographic, plastic, Science (journal), sea turtles, sex chromosomes, University of Queensland}

Sea Turtles Display Elegant Design Solutions; They’re Also Really Cute

_{David Coppedge
July 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Apart from their being adorable, what many may not realize is that their motion on the sand is also amazingly efficient. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, Baden Powell, BBC, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, creation, Darwinism, faith, fundamentalism, Gospels, HMS Beagle, Honest to God, John Robinson, literalism, miracles, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, original sin, orthodoxy, Oxford University, Pentateuch, Principles of Geology, rainbow, revelation, Richard Dawkins, Robert Fitzroy, Rudolf Bultmann, theology, Tower of Babel, Victorians}

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

_{Neil Thomas
July 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

10}

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution. Read More ›

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Date
July 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, criminals, evil, evolution, free will, good, Holocaust, humans, ID the Future, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Michael Egnor, morality, Nazis, neurosurgery, podcast}

Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Science and Culture
July 10, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

1}

How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain scan, chimpanzees, human brain, humans, neuroscience, temporal lobe, thought}

Human Brain Has Many More Language Connections than Chimp Brain

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

The researchers were interested in a nerve tract that connects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, the arcuate fasciculus. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, book reviews, Cambridge University Press, Darwinists, dialogue, evolution, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Panda's Thumb, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski}

Rosenhouse Roundup

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Bavaria, Carboniferous Period, dragonflies, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, larvae, males, Odonata, penis, sperm, Upper Jurassic, veins, venation, vertebrate}

Fossil Friday: Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic

_{Günter Bechly
July 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

3}

Almost everything in the wonderful construction of dragonflies cries out for a design explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, demythologization, evolution, faith, Hell, James Hutton, jesus, mythology, Noah’s Flood, On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Rudolf Bultmann, saltations, special creation, Theory of the Earth, uniformitarianism}

Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization

_{Neil Thomas
July 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

7}

The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Australia, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Constitution, Discovery Institute, Dobbs v. Jackson, Europe, federal courts, human rights, Humanize, media, North America, public policy, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, United States, Wesley Smith}

Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

_{Science and Culture
July 7, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, basalt lava glass, beauty, bees, Casey Luskin, Cassini mission, design filter, Giant’s Causeway, Grand Canyon, hexagons, intelligence, intelligent design, Ireland, Jupiter, natural laws, Physical Review Letters, physicists, Saturn, snowflakes, Voyager spacecraft, William A. Dembski}

Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons

_{David Coppedge
July 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

9}

The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lyell, Darwinism, epigenetics, Greek philosophers, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lamarckian theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Mendelian genetics, mount improbable, natural preservation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Pyrrho, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Buranyi, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, The Guardian}

Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck

_{Neil Thomas
July 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

15}

The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Read More ›