Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, daemons, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Fates, gods, harpies, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, satyrs, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians}

Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?

_{Neil Thomas
January 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, evolution, intelligent design, light bulb, molecular biology, molecular machines, motility, natural selection, propulsion, proteins, specifications, Waldean Schulz}

Third Paper Presenting an Engineering Analysis of the Flagellum Makes the Case for Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 6, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A diagram in the paper — showing interactions in terms of engineering schematics — is unlike any description of the flagellum that I’ve seen. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Augustus, beliefs, determinism, free will, John Bell, laws of nature, materialists, nature, physicists, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, Superdeterminism, universe}

Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

_{Michael Egnor
January 5, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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The conventional view of nature held by materialists is that all acts are wholly determined by the laws of nature. Read More ›

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Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biosignatures, Case Western Reserve University, computers, flowers, Forensics, forgery, fraud, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, meteorites, microbes, NASA, Nature (journal), Neural Networks, predatory journals, science, stromatolites}

Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

_{Science and Culture
January 5, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, Ian Tattersall, IDEA Center, National Academy of Sciences, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Science Uprising, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory}

Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
January 5, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›

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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 ›