Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
December 28, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilharzia, DNA, evolution, IDEA Club, intelligent design, junk DNA, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNAs, paradigm, parasites, platyhelminth worm, Schistosoma mansoni, sex-determination, South Africa, southern Africa, UC San Diego}

#6 Story of 2021: Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
December 27, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, existence, faith, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, Internet, life, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: What’s Wrong with Atheism?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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If there were no God, and no purpose to existence, could we rationally expect a cosmic home like ours? Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
December 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute}

#7 Story of 2021: Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
December 26, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, computer program, DNA, evolution, Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven, information, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, Internet, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: What Is Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Follow the science! It demonstrates that the digitally encoded information in DNA, like all such information, could have arisen from only one source. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cas9, Casey Luskin, coordination, CRISPR, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, Feng Zhang, Ferrari, Francis Collins, gene editing, genetic defects, genetic enhancements, George Church, germ line, humans, Huntington’s disease, incrementalism, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jennifer Doudna, John Bodnar, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, natural history, natural selection, predictions, Richard Dawkins, sickle cell disease, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Language of God}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

_{William A. Dembski
December 25, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 24, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, creator, earth, Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, multiverse, panspermia, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: Aliens, the Multiverse, or God?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 24, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Resisting the evidence of cosmic and biological design, some atheist scientists have retreated to desperate rationalizations. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial structures}

#9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record

_{Emily Reeves
December 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Allison C. Daley, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Marten Scheffer, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer}

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

_{Casey Luskin
December 23, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 23, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, Internet, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, universe, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: How Did the Universe Begin?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 23, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Some scientists, including Albert Einstein, fought hard against the idea of a Big Bang — that the universe burst into existence a finite time ago. Read More ›