Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), evolution, faith, First Cause, Flower Power, Germany, Higher Criticism, information, Roman Catholic, secularism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Swinging 1860s

_{Neil Thomas
March 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abstract thought, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ant colony, ants, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, computer programmers, engineers, Eric Cassell, foraging, intelligent design, Internet, life forms, navigation, robustness, Traveling Salesman Problem}

Ants Use Algorithms Similar to Those of the Internet

_{Science and Culture
March 4, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Optimization algorithms enable the ant colony to decide how many ants to send to a given food source and when to drastically reduce the number. Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, asceticism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Dover Beach, Epicurus, Greek gods, In Memoriam, Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Humphry Ward, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Robert Elsmere, theomachy, Victorian England}

Darwin and Theomachy

_{Neil Thomas
March 4, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

4}

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological redundancy, design triangulation, DNA, evolution, fitness, function, genetic material, genotype, intelligent design, laboratory conditions, Martin Nowak, neo-Darwinian theory, organisms, robustness}

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, evolution, explosions, fake fossils, fossil record, Günter Bechly, history of life, ID the Future, morphology, paleontologists, podcast, sudden appearance, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, transitional forms, Tree of Life}

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

_{Science and Culture
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›

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post

Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological redundancy, design triangulation, DNA, duplicate genes, evolution, fitness, function, genes, intelligent design, junk DNA, Martin Nowak, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, redundancy}

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alec Ryrie, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Das Wesen des Christentums, Death and the Ploughman, faith, James Thomson, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, The Essence of Christianity, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

_{Neil Thomas
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, birds, chimpanzees, cockatoo, golf, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, New Caledonian crows, New Zealand, octopuses, Smithsonian Magazine, University of Birmingham, vertebrates, walnut}

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 2, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alan Guth, Alan Sandage, Alexander Vilenkin, Arthur Eddington, Arvind Borde, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, creation, Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, intelligent design, law of gravity, Lawrence Krauss, Paul Steinhardt, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Hawking, string theory, universe}

Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

_{Brian Miller
March 2, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

10}

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Reporting
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, bioengineering, biofuels, Brownian motion, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, drugs, evolution, Evolution News, Humpty Dumpty, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, molecular machines, signals, Stanford University, The Design of Life, The New Yorker, William A. Dembski}

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

_{Casey Luskin
March 2, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Reporting

6}

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›