Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, living systems, Louis Agassiz, Michael Denton, Privileged Species, Richard Owen, The Miracle of Man}

Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”

_{Science and Culture
June 17, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Crato Formation, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, ID the Future, living fossils, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, podcast}

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

_{Günter Bechly
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, cryptography, Darwinists, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Elliott Sober, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, monograph, plagiarism, S. Joshua Swamidass, specified complexity, statistics, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago, William Shakespeare, Winston Ewert}

The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

_{William A. Dembski
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Brown, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, fideism, Gospels, Headlong Hall, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Love Peacock, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

15}

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, species barrier, women, writ of habeas corpus}

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, anti-evolutionism, biological systems, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, entropy, evolution, Evolution News, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Dawkins, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Steven Pinker, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationists}

The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
June 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

4}

If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Astrobiology (journal), basalt lava glass, early Earth, earth, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, intelligent agency, investigators, Jack Szostak, James Tour, Mars, natural processes, nucleoside triphosphates, nucleotides, phosphates, ribonucleic acid, RNA, RNA world}

Origin of Life from Basalt Lava Glass? Sorry, No

_{Brian Miller
June 15, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

An honest evaluation of the studies leads to the conclusion that the formation of RNA could not have occurred through any natural processes on the early earth. Read More ›

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Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Fine-Tuner, ID the Future, intelligent agency, intelligent design, lottery, Michael Medved, multiverse, physicists, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Listen: Dr. Meyer in the Multiverse of Madness

_{Science and Culture
June 15, 2022

Chemistry, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

A multiverse would require a multiverse-generating device, and it would have to be exquisitely fine-tuned to generate even one habitable universe. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, Cryogenian Period, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, emergence, heat, information problem, innovation, intelligence, Maximilian Telford, Metazoa, molecular clock, molecular data, molluscs, natural selection, oxygen, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Precambrian, sponges, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

_{David Coppedge
June 15, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 1 Corinthians, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), design detection, earth, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, intelligent life, John Leslie, life, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Science, solar system, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theology, William A. Dembski}

Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

_{Paul Nelson
June 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›