Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, cats, cilium, evolution, hair, hair cells, honeybees, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Mammalia, mammals, metazoans, Michael Behe, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Nature (journal), physicists, PNAS, predators, rabbits, Royal Society Open Science, squirrels, The Scientist}

Hairy Matters for Evolution

_{Science and Culture
January 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Thin strands we call hair can give headaches to Darwinists. Here are some surprising stories about hair. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Abraham Loeb, Anna Ijjas, Big Bang, brane, cosmic beginning, cosmic inflation, cyclical cosmology, entropy, homogeneity, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, Quanta Magazine, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer}

Paul Steinhardt’s Cyclical Cosmology Fails to Challenge a Cosmic Beginning

_{Brian Miller
January 12, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

5}

The conclusion that the universe had a beginning is far more parsimonious and consistent with the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, down, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, London, Lucretius, Ludwig Feuerbach, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Naturphilosophie, world spirit}

Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?

_{Neil Thomas
January 12, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences

7}

Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, evolution, finch beaks, fruit flies, gravity well, ID the Future, intelligent design, phenotypic plasticity, podcast, stickleback fish}

Engineers Crash the Evolution Party, Rethink Biological Variation

_{Science and Culture
January 11, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Miller and Luskin discuss fruit flies, finch beaks, stickleback fish, mutational hotspots, phenotypic plasticity, and the gravity well model. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, CMBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, phantom field, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, scalar field, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation}

Another Attempt by an Esteemed Cosmologist to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning Collapses on Inspection

_{Brian Miller
January 11, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

Roger Penrose, one of the preeminent physicists of our day, envisions that the universe is eternally expanding. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, criminal justice, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, environmentalism, George Gaylord Simpson, John Derbyshire, medicine, National Review, natural selection, Nobel laureates, Peter Singer, Princeton University, random mutations, religion, Wayne State University}

How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

_{John G. West
January 11, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

6}

The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, birds, Charles Darwin, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, living fossils, mammals, Max Planck Institute, monocots, paleobotany, University of Tübingen, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", capitalism, cosmogenic myth, economics, evolution, laissez-faire, Michael Denton, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe}

Myth-Making and Malthus

_{Neil Thomas
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, computer science, computers, Conservation of Information, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary informatics, improbable, information, information theory, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, Kolmogorov information, Michael Behe, pancakes, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

_{Science and Culture
January 10, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims? Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Charles Darwin, divine image, eagle, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, lion, microscopes, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, whale}

The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
January 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species. Read More ›