Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, 23andMe, Amazon, archaeology, Brown University, Columbia University, David Klinghoffer, dementia, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, genome, George Thomas, Greek, Greeks, Harriet Lund, humans, immaterial genome, journalism, Latin, Los Angeles, Mayflower, National Review, Orthodox Judaism, Oscar A. C. Lund, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Robert Rosen, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Smithsonian National Museum, The Gene: An Intimate History, whales, William F. Buckley Jr., yeast}

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, assignments, biology, chemistry, discount, Discovery Institute Academy, education, high school, homeschool, instruction, intelligent design, lab activities, lectures, nature, parents, readings, scientists, students, teachers, tuition, universe}

Intelligent Design Biology and Chemistry for Homeschoolers

_{John G. West
May 5, 2025

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science Education

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This fall, Discovery Institute Academy will be offering both High School Biology and High School Chemistry for the 2025-26 school year. Read More ›

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Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anaxagoras, Charles Darwin, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, immaterial genome, King Solomon, Leucippus, Michael Flannery, neo-Darwinists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, quantum physics, Richard Sternberg, Werner Heisenberg}

Flannery: What Werner Heisenberg Foresaw

_{Science and Culture
May 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact these smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, angiotensin, animals, auditory nerve, auditory signals, blood pressure, brain, cells, communication, comprehension, epinephrin, expression, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, pharynx, procreation, reception, Sciuridae, singing, sounds, speech, squirrels, teeth, throat, tissues, tongue, trees, vibrations, volatile organic compounds}

Communication, in Human Life and Beyond: An Irreducibly Complex Design

_{Eric Hedin
May 5, 2025

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Communication saturates the animal kingdom in many forms. At the cellular level, communication forms an integral part of sustaining physical being. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, biology, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, genome, ID the Future, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Plato's Revenge, podcast}

“If That’s True, It Changes Everything”: David Klinghoffer Reads from Plato’s Revenge

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 4, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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As David Klinghoffer relates in the Introduction, Richard Sternberg’s work is set to change the predominant conception of the genome. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Department of Justice, Edward Martin Jr., Eric Rubin, First Amendment, free speech, gender-affirming care, government, medicine, New York Times, public health, public policy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington DC}

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2025

Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — no matter how biased. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 2, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, David Klinghoffer, heredity, intelligent design, Life Itself, Plato's Revenge, providence, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Stephen J. Iacoboni}

In the Conventional Genetic Paradigm, “Something Is Missing, Something Big”

_{Science and Culture
May 2, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

2}

"David Klinghoffer masterfully chronicles Richard Sternberg’s decades-long search to fill the void articulated by Robert Rosen." Read More ›

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Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, creativity, Eric Holloway, escalator, evolutionary processes, human creativity, large language models, Lovelace test, Minding the Brain, mountain climbing, naturalistic explanations, parallel universes, Pat Flynn, Planck cubes, Planck time, randomness, Richard Taylor, Robert J. Marks II, Selmer Bringsjord, Wyoming}

Can We Credit Human Creativity to Blind Evolution?

_{Science and Culture
May 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The genius of the human mind requires an external, intelligent source beyond the material world. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas}

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›