Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

3}

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

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

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