Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, co-origination, cofactors, David A. Hullender, DNA repair, elementary particles, Elsevier, Elsevier journals, enzymes, evolution, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, junkyard tornado, minimal living cell, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma mycoides, naturalistic evolutionary processes, Olen R. Brown, oxidative phosphorylation, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, universe, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, vitamins, Why Evolution Is True}

To a Pro-Intelligent Design Paper, Biologist Jerry Coyne Reacts with Question-Begging

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The paper seeks to elucidate the plausibility of naturalistic evolutionary processes generating a minimal living cell. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, functional intermediates, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, English, Europe, Europeans, faith and science, fine-tuning, France, Galileo Galilei, God the Science the Evidence, Greenwich Village, heat death, Michel-Yves Bolloré, New York City, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, Princeton University, relativity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Spain, St. Joseph’s Church, Stephen Meyer, UC Berkeley, United States, universe}

New Book: God Hypothesis, European Style; Events at Princeton, Berkeley

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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In the faith context, the popular picture in America of what Europe is like — the land that God forgot — may need to be revised. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, BRAF, cancer, cancer genomics, cell growth, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, driver mutations, EGFR, evolution, genes, IDH1/2, intelligent design, JAK2, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Kras, metazoans, Michael Behe, Molecular Cancer Research, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, PIK3CA, reproduction, survival, tumor, tumor promoter proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, Vanderbilt University}

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
September 15, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

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One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Read More ›

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Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ancient Earth, cells, chemistry, design evidence, design signal, destiny, deterministic pathways, fascination, frustration, Georgia Tech, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, life, lipids, Loren Williams, LUCA, molecules, NASA, National Science Foundation, nucleic acids, ocean, organic chemistry, polysaccharides, proteins, ribosomes, water, wet-dry cycles, YouTube videos}

Origin-of-Life Researcher at Georgia Tech Picks Up the Design Signal in Biopolymers

_{Science and Culture
September 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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You will hear one word, over and over in this remarkable talk, that has stolen the place, or taken the credit, for what is undeniable evidence of design. Read More ›

Abstract image representing quantum mechanics and the mysterious world of subatomic particles, quantum, mechanics, physics

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, conspiracy theory, Daniel Kagan Kans, Eric Weinstein, general relativity, governments, Johns Hopkins University, Leonard Susskind, physical world, physics, Piers Morgan, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Rob Sheldon, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, taxpayers, theoretical physicists, tinfoil hat, Wall Street Journal, YouTubers}

“Conspiracy Physics”: Platforming an Attack on Dissenting Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 15, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

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If physicists now “worry about the consequences” of long-term theory failure, it is reasonable to think that there are more serious problems in the discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, apology, Brian Kilmeade, broadcasting, dignity, emotion, ethics, Fox News, homeless, hospitalization, human beings, influencers, Iryna Zarutska, lethal injection, media, mental illness, murder, News, North Carolina, TikTok}

Did Brian Kilmeade Actually Say That?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2025

Ethics, Medicine

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We have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. Read More ›

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Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Physics
Tagged
, Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, Boris Podolsky, climate models, COSM 2025, Discovery Institute, International Monetary Fund, John F. Clauser, John Stuart Bell, Louisa Gilder, Nathan Rosen, Nobel laureates, particles, photon, physicists, spin, Stuart Freedman, The Age of Entanglement, Washington Post}

COSM 2025 Will Feature Nobel Laureate Physicist and Skeptic John F. Clauser

_{Science and Culture
September 12, 2025

Environment & Climate, Physics

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Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, Christianity for Doubters, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, doubt, faith and science, Granville Sewell, grief, human drama, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, laws of nature, mathematicians, Robert J. Marks II, Science and Culture, suffering, theology, unintelligent laws}

A New Second Edition of Mathematician Granville Sewell’s Book Is Out Now

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Sewell wrote perhaps the most moving essay we've ever published here, under the title, "The Biggest Theological Objection to Design." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aleksander Oparin, amino acids, articles, atmosphere, cartoons, cross-reactions, David Coppedge, evolution, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, movies, myths, natural selection, origin of life, peppered moth, podcast, scientific journals, spark inception conditions, The Origin of Life (book), Zombie Science}

Evolution’s Stubborn Icons: Peppered Moths and Miller-Urey Still Shambling Along

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 12, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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By now, you might think that the icons of evolution that Dr. Jonathan Wells wrote about 24 years ago have been put out of our misery. Read More ›