Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
December 4, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Nonsense of a High Order, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick, religion, Stephen Hawking}

Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking’s Nonsense of a High Order

_{Science and Culture
December 4, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

1}

Averick describes the work as “superficial,” “convenient,” and marked by “a glaring lack of profundity.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 3, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Townes, complex specified information, complexity, DNA, human agents, information, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, machines, molecular machines, Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, nature, Nobel laureates, Pacific Northwest, poker, programming, proteins, royal flush, scientific method, South Dakota, U.S. Presidents, volcano}

What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

_{Casey Luskin
December 3, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cell biology, cells, CNN, computers, frogs, intelligent design, John Timmer, robots, self-replication, Tufts University, University of Vermont}

Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

_{Brian Miller
December 3, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 3, 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}

Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

_{Science and Culture
December 3, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

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

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin critics, evolution, girls, human behavior, ID the Future, materialism, natural selection, podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, Victorian England, World War II}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

3}

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abstraction, American Scientific Affiliation, Brian Miller, complex specified information, David Klinghoffer, evolution, fire, Francis Crick, genetic code, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James D. Watson, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

"How can we determine whether a 10-digit number is a random number or a specified telephone number to call your mother?" Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, chewing, common descent, Epicurus, evolution, evolutionists, falsifiability, flat tire, Imre Lakatos, intelligent design, organs, predictions, teeth, teleology, testability, utility}

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

_{Cornelius Hunter
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

6}

UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anthology, apologetics, Eric Anderson, evolution, geologists, ID critics, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

Casey Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is Worth Defending

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, David Brown, English, evolution, French, German, Heinrich Bronn, intelligent design, Lamarckism, Latin, Ludwig Büchner, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, telos, translation}

Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term

_{Neil Thomas
December 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biopolymers, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA, double helix, Eigen’s paradox, ethanol, glycans, information, intelligent design, Long Story Short, Miller-Urey experiment, natural processes, nucleotides, proteins, RNA, water}

Long Story Short — A Strikingly Unnatural Property of Biopolymers

_{Rob Stadler
December 1, 2021

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Scientists have been trying for decades to get monomers to link up into biopolymers under “prebiotically plausible conditions.” Read More ›