Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, evolutionary processes, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, poetry, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

_{Neil Thomas
November 9, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy

4}

Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›

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Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

_{Science & Culture
November 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, Caltech, cells, David Klinghoffer, epigenetics, genome, Hospital for Sick Children, John Innes Centre, metabolism, Modern Synthesis, molecular machines, Neo-Darwinism, organelles, Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, The Scientist, Toronto, University of Konstanz}

Epigenetics Directs Genetics — And That’s a Problem for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
November 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The ability to sequence genomes was a great accomplishment. But there is something over and above genes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, brain activity, consciousness, death, evolution, faith, heart, life after death, materialism, natural selection, near-death experiences, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking}

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Medicine

4}

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›

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Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, consciousness, dog, electron, Eugene Wigner, human consciousness, Nobel Prize, observations, observer, prayer, quantum mechanics, thought experiment}

As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?

_{Science & Culture
November 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Eucharist, Europe, history, India, Jesus Christ, John Keats, John Milton, Middle Ages, Middle East, nature, Paradise Lost, poets, Roman Catholic, Thomas Aquinas, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

_{Neil Thomas
November 7, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, assumptions, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmic inflation, empirical evidence, Energy, galaxies, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, planets, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, stars, universe, YouTube videos}

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

_{Brian Miller
November 7, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 6, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, earth, Heaven, Hell, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

_{Neil Thomas
November 6, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 5, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bestseller, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, nature, poets, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

_{Neil Thomas
November 5, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›