Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, podcast, probability, rhetoric, strengths and weaknesses}

Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Geophysics
Origin of Life
Rare Earth
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysics, Cambrian Explosion, eukaryotes, evolution, geochemistry, geophysics, Great Oxidation Event, heme, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, iron, Mars, nutrients, oceans, Oxford University, oxygen, PNAS, supernova, toxicity, Washington University}

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

_{Science and Culture
January 25, 2022

Biology, Geophysics, Origin of Life, Rare Earth

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As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›

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Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academy, autopsy, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinism, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, Taking Leave of Darwin, Western culture}

Neil Thomas: An Autopsy of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 24, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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How was it that a theory so poorly supported by the evidence nevertheless came to dominate the academy? Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", blind spot, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionists, humans, intelligent design, junk science, Müller cells, Nathan Lents, neurons, photoreceptors, Richard Dawkins, squid, St. George Jackson Mivart}

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, apes, chromosomes, common ancestry, creationists, Darwin lobby, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Francis Collins, humans, IDEA Center, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Mongolia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Peter Hess, The Language of God}

Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 23, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, debate, Divine Hiddenness argument, evidence, faith, ground of existence, ignorance, logic, Matt Dillahunty, nature, theists}

Theists vs. Atheists: Who Has the Burden of Proof?

_{Michael Egnor
January 23, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Because Dillahunty refuses to debate me again, I’ll address his claim that atheists have no burden of proof in the debate over God’s existence in this post. Read More ›

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Date
January 22, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Center for Science and Culture, courage, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, evolution, fear, ID the Future, intelligent design, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, Stephen Meyer, UC Berkeley}

Stephen Meyer on Phillip Johnson’s Courage

_{Science and Culture
January 22, 2022

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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“There are many many many people who have come to the water’s edge, who have seen the problems with Darwinian evolution, have counted the cost, and recoiled.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cookbook, early Earth, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolism, primordial soup, recipe}

Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

_{Paul Nelson
January 21, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, birds, empirical science, evolution, glaucoma, human eye, hunters, intelligent design, John Ray, light, Nathan Lents, photoreceptor cells, retina, vision}

Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›