Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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

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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

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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 ›

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Date
June 14, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Medved, mind, podcast, PragerU, radio, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Stephen Meyer, universe, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer: God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos

_{Science and Culture
June 14, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

1}

Stephen Meyer and radio host Michael Medved discuss the series of hit videos for PragerU featuring Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Andreas Vesalius, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Cell (journal), Charles Darwin, elements, fruit, intelligent design, leaves, meat, metals, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, Nicolaus Copernicus, Plants (journal), poultry, primal blueprint, prior fitness, proteins, seafood, seeds, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Vanderbilt University, water cycle, zinc}

Zinc and the Miracle of Man

_{David Coppedge
June 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

10}

Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book. Read More ›

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Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bobby Azarian, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-organization theory, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science and Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiology, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, Common Core, cosmos, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth sciences, exoplanets, geologists, Hell, intelligent design, John West, solar system, stars, Uranus}

Casey Luskin: Questions Across the Cosmos

_{David Klinghoffer
June 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

Following his wonderful talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, geologist Casey Luskin took questions from the audience. Read More ›

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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

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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

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