Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, anesthesia, Claude Bernard, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, heliotropism, miRNAs, nervous system, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, Venus flytrap, worms}

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 15, 2022

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Sociology
Tagged
, Big Government, blacks, causation, Charles Darwin, correlation, Darwinian racism, elitism, evolution, evolutionists, human evolution, intellectuals, racial inequality, Racism, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

_{Richard Weikart
April 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Sociology

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This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, Canada, compass, convergence, cows, cryptochromes, Darwinian theory, evolution, fish, humans, intelligent design, Japan, Living Waters, magnetic field, Monarch butterflies, Nature Materials, Nature News, New Scientist, pigeons, reptiles, salmon, sea turtles}

An Engineering Marvel, Animals Find Their Way by Reading Earth’s Magnetic Field

_{David Coppedge
April 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Intelligent design predicts that organisms will be equipped with complex systems that can take advantage of environmental cues and respond with precision. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Dogs, emotions, foraging, fungi, Google Translate, humans, hyphae, intelligence, mushrooms, neurons, neuroscience, The Scientist, University of Exeter, wolves}

Not Just Plants — Even Fungi Like Mushrooms — Talk to Each Other?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

They are NOT judging us but they do have complex communications systems interacting with their environment. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

3}

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary biology, first living cell, Harold Urey, hot springs, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, materialism, microbes, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, nature, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment

_{Neil Thomas
April 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ATP synthase, bacteria, Cassini mission, dinitrogen, hemoglobin, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, microbes, Nature (journal), New Horizons, nitrogen, Pluto}

Microbe Performs Rocket Science, Vital for Life on Earth

_{David Coppedge
April 13, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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This little machine, which also knows how to recycle and reuse all its parts in a sustainable “green” way, keeps the nitrogen in balance for the whole planet. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, António Guterres, courts, development, Disney World, Elizabeth Kolbert, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, Orlando, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations}

Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

3}

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Carl Sagan, DNA, double helix, early Earth, Francis Crick, Harold Urey, James Watson, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Nobel Prize, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

_{Neil Thomas
April 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›