Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brains, faith, meditation, mind, neuroscience, religion}

The Mind/Brain Problem and the Power of Meditative Prayer

_{Science & Culture
August 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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It’s hard to know where the brain ends and the mind begins. How can studying our brains give us insight into our minds? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, birds, China, common descent, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, England, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Madagascar, missing links, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, Portugal, Scotland, Temporal Paradox, The Guardian, Tree of Life, Upper Jurassic, Utah}

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

_{Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, cosmogony, Genesis, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, astronomers, astrophysicists, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, James Webb Space Telescope, London, Paul Steinhardt, Rob Sheldon, Sabine Hossenfelder, Standard Model, Yale University}

Does the James Webb Space Telescope Show that the Big Bang Didn’t Happen?

_{Science & Culture
August 18, 2022

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics

4}

The unexpected new data coming back from the telescope are inspiring panic among astronomers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, equity, Evolution News, funding, inclusion, J. Scott Turner, money, National Association of Scholars, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Purpose and Desire, South Africa, taxpayers, universities, wokeness}

Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

4}

The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, abortion, African Americans, assisted suicide, babies, bias, censorship, culture, human being, media, morality, Politics, public health, Racism, religion, Roman Catholic, Supreme Court}

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2022

Ethics, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

4}

Many abortion absolutists claim that pro-lifers are “racist” because restrictions on abortion will “disproportionately” impact women of color. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, artistry, biophysicists, bones, dinosaurs, earth, elephant, engineers, gravity, Mass, Michael Denton, natural selection, physical laws, prior fitness, Privileged Species, sauropods, Science Advances, The Miracle of Man, University of Queensland}

Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

_{David Coppedge
August 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Michael Denton has shown that humans must be the right size to use fire and create technology. What about size limits on big animals? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Denis Noble, DNA, embryo, evolution, evolutionary biology, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fruit flies, Gerd Müller, horse, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Neo-Darwinism, Royal Society, Susan Mazur, Third Way of Evolution, Why Evolution Is True, Zombie Science (book)}

Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

_{Jonathan Wells
August 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

6}

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›