Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, aircraft, algorithms, complexity, cost, desert ants, Flight, genetic mutations, intelligent design, natural selection, navigation, neo-Darwinian theory, scientists}

Ants Do Trigonometry: A Problem for Darwinism

_{Eric Cassell
November 30, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

How can a trigonometric mathematical computation be programmed into the brain of an ant through a neo-Darwinian process of genetic mutation and natural selection? Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biopolymers, chirality, DNA, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, intelligent design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

_{Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Andrew McDiarmid, bureaucrats, Darwin-skeptics, evolution, experts, Free Science, government, immigration, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Post, parents, public education, science education, students, teachers}

Give Parents a Say in Education? Imagine That!

_{David Klinghoffer
November 30, 2021

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

3}

As with cancel culture, ID proponents and Darwin skeptics were well aware of this issue for years, long before it came to the forefront in the present moment. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 29, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biopolymers, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, cats, evolution, intelligent design, James Tour, Long Story Short, Science Uprising, tuna, YouTube videos}

New Episode of Long Story Short — Is the Origin of Biopolymers a Snap?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 29, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Or is it trickier than the scientists imagine, more akin to “hiding your tuna fish sandwich in a room full of cats”? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 28, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, charlatans, consciousness, Darwinists, Integrated information theory, Jerry Coyne, mind, multiverse, panpsychism, Philip Goff, Sean Carroll, Why Evolution Is True}

Darwinian Biologist Resists Learning to Live with Panpsychism

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 28, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Jerry Coyne is having a hard time understanding why anyone would even consider taking panpsychism seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID the Future, introns, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Plasmodium falciparum, podcast, technical papers, Tree of Life, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

2}

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
November 26, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Black Friday, calendars, Center for Science and Culture, Christmas gifts, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Michael Denton, microscopes, natural world, photography, shopping, telescopes, The Wonder of Water, Zazzle}

It’s Black Friday: Get Your New ID-Themed Calendar!

_{Amanda Witt
November 26, 2021

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

New this year is Wondrous Water, a calendar featuring gorgeous water photography. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, camera eye, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, compound eyes, COVID-19, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionists, eyes, fossil record, groceries, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, photon, Rachel Adams, Thanksgiving, trilobite, vertebrate eye, vision, Zombie Science (book)}

Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

_{David Klinghoffer
November 25, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

They were quite the sudden, unanticipated gift in the history of life. Read More ›