Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 31, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, alchemy, Ancient Near East, astrology, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, John Bloom, Judeo-Christian tradition, Nicolaus Copernicus, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

_{Science and Culture
January 31, 2022

Astronomy, Chemistry, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Read More ›

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Date
January 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, ATP, biochemists, Cell (journal), chromatids, chromatin, chromosomes, cohesin, condensin, cryo-electron microscopy, DNA, intelligent design, Korea, loop extrusion, nucleus, The Scientist, Vienna, X-ray}

DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature

_{Science and Culture
January 31, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, British Medical Journal, Canada, censorship, churches, civilization, COVID-19, Darwin Day in America, discrimination, disinformation, eugenics, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, government, Joe Biden, Jonathan Turley, Justin Trudeau, misinformation, National Public Radio, Nazi Germany, Pfizer Inc., Quebec, Ron Johnson, scientism, Social Darwinism, Surgeon General, totalitarian science, Twitter, United States, unvaccinated, vaccination mandates, vaccine, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Wisconsin, YouTube videos}

The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition

_{John G. West
January 31, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Now, after two years, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Read More ›

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Date
January 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, brain chemistry, Civic Biology, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, ID the Future, Niles Eldredge, podcast, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stephen Jay Gould, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Neil Thomas: Darwin, Aquinas, and the Origin of Life

_{Science and Culture
January 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Thomas and radio host Hank Hanegraaff discuss the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Charles Lyell, Darwinism, evolution, Great Britain, Isaac Newton, Lord Byron, mathematician, On the Origin of Species, Richard Hofstadter, uniformitarianism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Geology

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People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Christianity, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, deism, demythologization, Enlightenment, evolution, faith, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Feuerbach, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Wilberforce, secularization, The Essence of Christianity, Thucydides}

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

_{Neil Thomas
January 28, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Arizona State University, chihuahua, Dogs, emotions, humans, intelligent design, National Geographic, sentences, signals, words}

Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›

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Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cryo-electron microscopy, Current Biology, Cyanobacteria, Darwinism, evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, genetic code, intelligent design, metabolism, ocean, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, PNAS, Prochlorococcus}

“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers

_{Science and Culture
January 28, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationism, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, deduction, DNA, evolution, inference, intelligent design, multiverse, panspermia, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Watch: Kid Explains Intelligent Design to His Dad

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The lucidity of the younger individual’s grasp of ID is quite something. Tor could probably help out in tutoring some adult ID critics I can think of. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atomism, Chance and Necessity, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinism, David Hume, David Sedley, Epicurus, evolution, fear, human beings, Jacques Monod, Lucretius, natural selection, Richard Dawkins, theomachy}

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 27, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks. Read More ›