Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

17}

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, California, electric eels, fish, hair cells, intelligent design, Lake Malawi, Living Waters, marine biology, Nature Communications, NOAA, Physical Review Letters, Science (journal), sixth sense, Stanford University, toxins, University of Florida, University of Minnesota, Wikipedia}

Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)

_{David Coppedge
June 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals. Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design}

Brian Miller: The Intelligent Design Underground

_{Science and Culture
June 10, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Dr. Miller says that as many as one-quarter of Harvard post-docs in relevant fields privately express sympathy for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Araneae, Brazil, Crato Formation, Darwinists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, limestone, Lower Cretaceous, morphology, phylogenetic position, spiders, whip scorpions}

Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
June 10, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

1}

These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

18}

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, gradual development, intelligent design, Late Triassic, museums, nests, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, bipedalism, Discovery Institute Press, earth sciences, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, podcast, respiration}

The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down

_{Science and Culture
June 9, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Technology

1}

The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale. Read More ›

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Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, data compression, eating, intelligent design, mice, neuroscientists, Research, traffic, video games}

How Brains Use Data Compression to Get Things Right

_{Science and Culture
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

A recent experiment with mice showed data compression at work when the mice were making decisions about how to get a reward. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Dean Kenyon, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, James Thomson, On the Origin of Species, Percival Davis, Peter Bowler, Principles of Geology, Robert Elsmere, Theory of the Earth, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare}

Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

_{Neil Thomas
June 8, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Physical Sciences

10}

Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Read More ›