Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, cuticular hydrocarbons, Eric Anderson, Eric Cassell, evolution, evolutionary processes, foraging, foresight, harvester ants, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, podcast, sensors, signs}

Irreducible Complexity in Ant Behavior Triggers a Recognition of Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Recent research draws an unapologetic parallel between human engineering and biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adenosine triphosphate, astrobiologists, atmosphere, ATP, China, coincidences, crust, Current Biology, earth, Energy, enzymes, fertilizer, food shortages, Japan, Leviticus, metals, Michael Denton, mitochondria, molecular machines, Morocco, New Scientist, nitrogen, nuts, Peru, phosphates, phosphorus, phosphorylation, potassium, poultry, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Russia, seafood, soil, The Miracle of Man, theropod, Ukraine, Ultrasaurus, University of Washington}

Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus

_{David Coppedge
July 6, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, algorithms, Baylor University, computation, computer science, computers, consciousness, creativity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, emotion, faith, future, humans, immortality, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, Non-Computable You, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, Singularity, speed, spirituality, Turing Machine, understanding, William A. Dembski}

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, feet, fingers, function, intelligent design, molecular biologists, philosophers, physicalism, Pierre-Luc Germain, teeth, terminology, thoughts}

Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.” Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, debate, determinism, evolution, evolutionary biologists, free choice, free will, ID the Future, Jerry Coyne, podcast}

Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor: Humans Have Free Will

_{Science and Culture
July 5, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Dr. Egnor explains why the argument against free will is self-refuting and why he’s concluded that determinism as a theory in physics is dead. Read More ›