Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, CMBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, phantom field, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, scalar field, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation}

Another Attempt by an Esteemed Cosmologist to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning Collapses on Inspection

_{Brian Miller
January 11, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Roger Penrose, one of the preeminent physicists of our day, envisions that the universe is eternally expanding. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, criminal justice, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, environmentalism, George Gaylord Simpson, John Derbyshire, medicine, National Review, natural selection, Nobel laureates, Peter Singer, Princeton University, random mutations, religion, Wayne State University}

How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

_{John G. West
January 11, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, birds, Charles Darwin, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, living fossils, mammals, Max Planck Institute, monocots, paleobotany, University of Tübingen, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", capitalism, cosmogenic myth, economics, evolution, laissez-faire, Michael Denton, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe}

Myth-Making and Malthus

_{Neil Thomas
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Read More ›

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Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, computer science, computers, Conservation of Information, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary informatics, improbable, information, information theory, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, Kolmogorov information, Michael Behe, pancakes, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

_{Science and Culture
January 10, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Charles Darwin, divine image, eagle, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, lion, microscopes, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, whale}

The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
January 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biblical flood, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Homo sapiens, John Donne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), naturalists, Noah’s Ark, Principles of Geology, Samuel Johnson, South Sea Islands, speciation, species, tortoise, transmutation, uniformitarianism}

Darwin’s John the Baptist

_{Neil Thomas
January 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences

5}

Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Genetics
Medicine
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, China, CRISPR, eugenics, germline editing, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID the Future, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith}

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Medicine

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As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Michael Neve, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, South Sea Islands, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Charles Thaxton, computer simulations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, DNA, Eigen catastrophe, entropy, error catastrophe, evolution, intelligent design, interventions, mutation rate, natural selection, New York University, PNAS, randomness, Roger Olsen, science, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›