Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Buddhist monks, eye contact, Frankenstein, Kannon, Mary Shelley, Mindar, packaging, robots, seductive optics, uncanny valley, YouTube videos}

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 12, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Technology

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Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›

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Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Design Inference, DNA, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Gifford lectures, ID the Future, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, podcast, radio signals, science fiction, theism}

Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 12, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, co-evolution, conjugation, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, degeneration, devolution, evolution, genes, Gram-negative bacteria, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nature (journal), proteins, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, T3SS, The Miracle of Man, University College London}

Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”

_{David Coppedge
July 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System. Read More ›

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Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, aliens, Big Think, Elon Musk, Future of Humanity Institute, intelligent aliens, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin Rees, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Bostrom, Oxford University, simulation, simulation theory, The Island of Knowledge}

Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk

_{Science and Culture
July 11, 2022

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", ADHD, competition, depression, education, evolution, heart disease, human agency, human evolution, lizards, moths, natural selection, poverty, undirected process, United Kingdom, University of East Anglia}

“Human Evolution” Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 11, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings. Read More ›

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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