Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, 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
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, 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

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"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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, ancient Greeks, common sense, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Emily Sandico, epigenetics, genome, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, interview, molecular biology, philosophers, Plato, Plato's Revenge, podcast, Richard Sternberg, RNA}

Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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We are now overdue for a profound revolution in science, one you’ve probably heard very little about. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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, Aeon, Albert Einstein, cats, classical physics, Erwin Schrödinger, Geiger counter, ions, Jim Baggott, photons, physicists, physics, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat, thought experiment, weirdness}

Here Is a New Interpretation for That Alive-and-Dead Quantum Cat

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Schrödinger’s cat has got to be the most famous cat in science. He’s really a thought experiment. Read More ›

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Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
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, Amazon, biology, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, developmental biology, Discovery Institute Press, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionism, gene expression, genes, heredity, immaterial genome, intelligent design, intolerance, J. Scott Turner, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg}

Biologist J. Scott Turner: Sternberg and the “Central Dilemma of Evolutionism”

_{Science and Culture
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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The new book from Discovery Institute Press is currently the Amazon #1 bestseller in Genetics and #1 in Developmental Biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
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, Alistair Evans, Animal Algorithms, bird beaks, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, eagle, enthalpy, entropy, eukaryotes, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, godwit, Gutenberg University, humidity, John Harte, Kathleen Garland, mice, Monash University, Murphy’s Laws of Technology, ostrich, phase transition, photosynthesis, physics, physics envy, Plato's Revenge, pressure, Richard Sternberg, spoonbill, teleology, temperature, The Conversation, volume, Weasel program}

Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology

_{David Coppedge
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

_{Eric Hedin
April 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, ACLU, Colin Wright, Darwinism, Dayton, Donald Trump, evolutionary biologists, history, John Scopes, National Institutes of Health, private truth, public education, public truth, Salvo Magazine, Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee, transgenderism, Washington Post}

Scopes “Monkey” Trial Is Turning One Hundred

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 29, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Almost nothing happened quite the way the stereotypes have portrayed it since then. Read More ›