Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body size, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Drosophila, eggs, embryo, fruit flies, gravity well, insect wings, intelligent design, macromutations, metabolism, natural genetic engineering, overpopulation, phenotype, phenotypic plasticity, stochasticity, transposable elements}

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 4, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›

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Date
October 3, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, Ira Berkowitz, Jerry Coyne, Nonsense of a High Order, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick}

Rabbi Moshe Averick: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

_{Science and Culture
October 3, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, and shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 2, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, carbon, Darwinism, ecosystem, enzymes, evolution, green energy, intelligent design, oxygen, Rubisco, sugars}

The Molecular Machine Behind Carbon Balance

_{Emily Reeves
October 2, 2021

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plants are icons of sustainability. They create critical products for other living organisms while utilizing waste products. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, brains, Cambrian Explosion, consciousness, David Chalmers, Eva Jablonka, Germany, protocells, Simona Ginsberg}

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2021

Anatomy, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, demographics, Dover trial, evolution, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Old New Atheists, podcast, Robert Crowther, The God Delusion}

Comparing Intelligent Design and the New Atheists: Who’s Ahead?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 1, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

1}

Dr. Luskin makes the interesting observation that the New Atheists took off initially following the Dover ruling, seemingly fueled by it. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, ATP, carbon, carbon emissions, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, ecosystem, electricity, energy sources, green energy, intelligent design, light, matter, molecular machines, photosynthesis, photovoltaics, solar panels, voltage}

Nature’s Energy Mining Relies on Molecular Design

_{Emily Reeves
October 1, 2021

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Plants mine energy from a primary source (sun) and transform that energy into a secondary source (sugar). Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, devolution, elephants, Ethiopia, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, ivory poaching, malaria, Nature Microbiology, parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, tuskless elephants, tusks}

Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

_{Michael Behe
September 30, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

3}

The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, constraints, ecosystem, Energy, entropy, evolution, friction, gravity, green energy, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, photovoltaics, sunlight}

Why Intelligent Design Can Help Develop Clean, Green Energy Solutions

_{Emily Reeves
September 30, 2021

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Photosynthesis has been criticized as inefficient. Why? Because it is assumed to be the product of a mindless evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Boltzmann brain, cosmic fine-tuning, dualism, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Searle, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, multiverse, origins science, prime reality, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, Stephen Meyer, worldview}

Meyer: Every Worldview Must Have Its Prime Reality

_{Science and Culture
September 30, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

1}

What about the multiverse to explain the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics? It is a solution of sorts, but it comes at a tremendous cost. Read More ›

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Date
September 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwin's Black Box, DNA, eukaryotes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mistakes, mRNA, proofreading, Science (journal), transfer RNA, tRNA}

The Stop Lights in the Cell

_{Science and Culture
September 29, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Even a cell needs laws and enforcers. When the enforcers don’t do their jobs, crime increases in cities and in cells. Read More ›