Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, Communications Biology, convergent evolution, Darwinism, Darwinism as religion, evolution, evolutionary tree, gene sequences, Milner Centre for Evolution, Phys.org, popularizers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life, University of Bath}

Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, flowering plants, intelligent design, nature, photography, poison, seeds}

Deadly Beauty: Golden Rain

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Golden rain is in full bloom on our terrace in Echsenbach (Lower Austria). The seeds are highly poisonous but it is a real beauty. Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, eukaryotic cells, evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, paradigm shift, prokaryotic cells, superorganism, universal common descent}

More Turbulence at the Base of the Tree of Life

_{Science and Culture
June 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

For a theory whose empirical strength is so great that it cannot be doubted, universal common descent certainly is doubted a lot. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Christianity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, dark energy, dark matter, ether, Galileo Galilei, Hebrew Bible, Isaac Newton, John West, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Reformation, Renaissance, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientists, theism}

Stephen Meyer Takes Questions, Including: “Has Science Matured Past Its Christian Origins?”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 2, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Granted that the early scientists were Christians, does it follow that science necessarily supports Christianity or any form of theism? Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Answers in Genesis, anti-communism, Baptists, Carl Weinberg, Charles Darwin, Communists, cooperation, Cornell University Press, creationists, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fundamentalists, history, Indiana University, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Ku Klux Klan, Lamarckism, Marxists, Michael Ruse, Nazism, progressives, Red Dynamite, Socialist Darwinism, The Descent of Man}

Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists? Carl Weinberg Says Yes

_{Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bees, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Deborah M. Gordon, emotion, entomologists, Eric Cassell, insects, intelligent design, invertebrates, lobsters, locusts, neuroscience, octopuses, praying mantis, predators, snails, squid, University of Minnesota, vertebrates}

Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australians, bioengineering, blood, breathing, circulatory system, earth, Eric Anderson, Günter Bechly, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, lungs, Michael Denton, paleontologists, podcast, respiratory system, secular humanism, sun, The Miracle of Man, theistic humanism}

Miracle of Man: Fine-Tuning for Blood and Breath

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Denton provides a scientific underpinning for a theistic humanism far beyond the nihilistic implications of so-called secular humanism,” writes Günter Bechly. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, anti-communism, capitalism, Carl Weinberg, Christianity, Communism, Cornell University Press, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, fundamentalists, history, immorality, Indiana University, Karl Marx, morality, Politics, power, Red Dynamite}

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

_{Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, carbon, David Coppedge, Europa, Europa Clipper, Ganymede, geophysics, Greenland, hydrogen, Jupiter, moons, NASA, nitrogen, ocean, oxygen, phosphorus, photosynthesis, seafloor, Stanford University, sulfur, water}

Why Scientists Think There Could Be Life on Europa

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2022

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Jupiter’s moon Europa, somewhat smaller than Earth’s moon, may have surface water and organic chemicals, researchers say. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, animals, ants, decisions, foraging, gambling, heuristic, humans, Mary Olmstead, neurons, pigeons, rationality, rats, reward, risk, Valerie Kuhlmeier}

Animal Algorithms: Ant Foraging Is a “Rational” Behavior

_{Eric Cassell
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Of course, ants and other animals do not make decisions in a “conscious” manner as humans would. Instead they rely on algorithms. Read More ›