Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, antibodies, astronauts, bioengineering, cells, diseases, genome, health, information, medicine, microchips, mRNA vaccines, mRNAs, proteins, University of Washington}

Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Planetology

4}

University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.” Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, genes, natural selection, offspring, organisms, random mutation, teleology, The Scientist, twins}

Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences

2}

Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Academy Award, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computer programmers, computer science, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, LaMDA, Lovelace test, pop culture, Robert J. Marks II, TikTok, Washington Post, worldview, Yahoo News!}

Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

8}

Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program. Read More ›

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Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bacteriophages, BioEssays, Biological Reviews, cellular life, censorship, cytoplasm, Dave Speijer, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, mitochondria, nucleic acid, proteins, viruses}

Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

_{Science & Culture
November 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

4}

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 13, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, attorneys, breasts, children, England, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, ideology, lawyers, mastectomies, money, puberty blocking, television, transphobia, trial lawyers}

Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 13, 2022

Medicine, Science

4}

In my experience — as a once-practicing trial attorney — when the smell of money is in the water, ideology is generally not the first priority. Read More ›

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Date
November 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, cheating, chess, design detection, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, mathematician, podcast, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski}

Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

_{Science & Culture
November 12, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

1}

At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, eye, Joe Thornton, just-so stories, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, protein science, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, vertebrate eye, YouTube videos}

Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

4}

The formula goes like this: 1. Evolution is true. 2. Here’s how it must have happened. 3. Look, yet more proof of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, Brazil, Crato Formation, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, origami, Permian period, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

_{Günter Bechly
November 11, 2022

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

4}

This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, common descent, convergence, debates, evolution, evolutionists, gradualism, just-so stories, Lund University, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, naturalism, saltationism, textbooks, The Conversation}

There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

2}

What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, atheism, blindness, brain activity, cardiac arrest, consciousness, death, heart, materialism, materialists, mind, neuroscience, Salon, Twitter, University of Montreal, Wesley Smith}

Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

2}

"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›