Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ecology
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ants, behavior, Charles Darwin, entomologists, evolution, human behavior, humans, meaning, morality, On the Origin of Species, physiology, purpose, religion, sociobiology, spirit, worldview}

Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology

_{Richard Weikart
January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ecology, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Benedict Cumberbatch, Boltzmann brains, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, complex and specified information, cosmic fine-tuning, George Ellis, Joe Silk, Leonard Susskind, materialists, movies, multiverse, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Newspeak, Ockham’s razor, Paul Davies, proton, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabine Hossenfelder, specified complexity, Spider-Man, Stephen Meyer, universe, William A. Dembski}

Spider-Man, the Multiverse, and Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In the new Spider-Man movie, the multiverse not only makes an appearance but plays a crucial role in the plot. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, American Journal of Physics, atoms, automobiles, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, coins, computers, duplication errors, earth, events, evolution, intelligent design, materialists, natural forces, open system, Physics Essays, Second Law of Thermodynamics, self-replicator, sun, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, tornado, William A. Dembski}

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law

_{Granville Sewell
January 4, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, blind natural forces, Casey Luskin, convergent evolution, Eric Cassell, evolution, genetic changes, ID the Future, insects, intelligent design, No Free Lunch theorems, podcast, programmed behaviors, purpose, spider silk, spiders, teleology, teleophobia, William A. Dembski}

Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Chile, Darwinism, digestive enzymes, digits, evolution, fin rays, fish, gene regulatory network, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, limbs, Long Story Short, mitosis, Neil Shubin, PNAS, Spain, tiktaalik, University of Chicago}

More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2022

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

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Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Linnaeus, common ancestry, Craig Venter, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution (journal), genetic engineering, geneticists, Georges Cuvier, historical sciences, intelligent design, molecular biologists, Mycoplasma, phylogenetics, primates, scientists, separate ancestry, statistics, Summer Seminar, systematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, components, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, constraints, design logic, engineering model, evolution, hook, intelligent design, manufacturing, navigation, propeller, proteins, requirements}

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

_{Brian Miller
January 3, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, blind evolution, brain, Casey Luskin, desert ants, Eric Cassell, evolution, genome, honey bee colony, honey bees, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, programming, webinar}

Animal Algorithms: Desert Ants and Honey Bees

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Eric Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
January 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Date
December 31, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Dan Graur, DNA, evolution, floor plan, genomic distances, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNA, nuclear organization, nucleolus, nucleus, proteins, RD-SPRITE, RNA, spatial organization, speckles, splicing, transcriptional condensates}

#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

_{Science and Culture
December 31, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›