Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Wayne Rossiter

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bird vocalizations, birds, bluetooth, Bob Placier, character, culture, fast food, Henry David Thoreau, meaning, Merlin, Neil Peart, Ohio, ornithology, personhood, piggy bank, restaurants, rhinoceros, Rush, wildlife, wisdom}

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

_{Wayne Rossiter
May 16, 2025

Technology, Zoology

4}

Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, animal forms, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Hoover Institution, ID the Future, Peter Robinson, podcast, Stanford University, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Knowledge, Yale University}

The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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The interview was inspired by Professor Gelernter’s essay “Giving Up Darwin: A Fond Farewell to a Brilliant and Beautiful Theory.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Zoology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, butterflies, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, immaterial genome, materialist explanations, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis (book), Michael Flannery, natural selection, naturalists, Paul Nelson, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Zoology

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What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, A. J. Dellinger, AI Delusion, artificial intelligence, chatbots, Coastal, COVID-19, Eric Berridge, Gary Marcus, humans, Klarna, machines, NVidia, return on investment, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, self-checkout, shoplifters, shoplifting, Target (retail chain), tariffs, The Post Millennial, theft, Walmart}

The AI Delusion: Companies Spending a Lot on It Are Not Seeing a Big Return

_{Science and Culture
May 15, 2025

Applied Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Bots not only don’t buy things themselves but may be chasing away humans who do. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, biologist, biophysicists, Dan Stern Cardinale, describing, echolocation, Emma C. Teeling, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary explanations, explaining, Flight, Gareth Jones, intelligent design, Michael Behe, presupposing, Rutgers University, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Uncommon Descent}

Let’s Enter “Bat Echolocation Evolution” in Google Scholar

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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How did it arise? Is a detailed description available out there? When I tried that search myself, the first paper that came up was this one. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, advocacy, American Journal of Bioethics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, hospitals, medical school, medicine, patients, Paul Ramsey, policy, United Nations, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Charles Darwin, Clockwork, Darwin's Black Box, designer, DNA replication, Douglas Axe, evolution, hearing, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mechanics, Michael Behe, mind, molecular animations, photon detection, Undeniable (book)}

Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 13, 2025

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is hard to watch these animations and not come away with the strong sense that these systems are the product of a conscious mind. Read More ›