Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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post

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, Cicero, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, eugenics, evolution, George Gaylord Simpson, Giuseppe Sermonti, intelligent design, Islam, jesus, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Marco Respinti, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Plato, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalms, Racism, software, St. Paul, Stephen Meyer, The Magician's Twin}

The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

_{Science & Culture
November 10, 2022

Bioethics, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

7}

"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, bacteria, C.S. Lewis, City Journal, coronavirus, embryo, evolution, fish, honeybees, humans, intelligent design, Nature (journal), Nicholas Wade, oceans, Phys.org, rock, soil, unnatural, Wuhan}

More Unnatural Naturalism, and More Confusion from Naturalists

_{David Coppedge
November 10, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Honeybees and cells have a limited set of options that are programmed into their genomes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, beavers, chance, evolution, humans, intelligent design, intentionality, natural selection, salmon, selection pressure, University of Helsinki, whales}

What’s “Natural”? Engineering Creates a Conundrum for Evolutionists

_{David Coppedge
November 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

4}

I do not know Dr. Merilä’s stance on human origins, but it is a safe bet that he denies intelligent design, and believes humans evolved from other animals. Read More ›