Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", books, critics, intelligent design, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, multiverse, New Atheists, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick}

Rabbi Moshe Averick Deflates the Multiverse, and the New Atheists

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2021

Faith & Science, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Rabbi Averick shares his spirited takedown of the multiverse theory for the origin of life, and dismantles the “God of the Gaps” objection to ID. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 25, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotics, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, environmental conditions, evolution, evolvability, information, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, neo-Darwinian evolution, physiology, sensors, waiting-time problem}

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

_{Brian Miller
September 25, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biologists, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, engineering principles, engineers, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology}

Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Arjuna Das, brains, Darwinians, debates, faith, Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, podcast, Theology Unleashed}

Egnor Versus Dillahunty: “Does God Exist?”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science

2}

There's a time for gentle and friendly conversations with atheist and Darwinian interlocutors, and a time for a more, shall we say, pugilistic approach. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, hair, intelligent design, James Shapiro, maize, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, sodium, temperature, yeast}

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, elitism, intelligent design, materialists, medicine, Politics, Science Uprising, tenure, truth}

In Science — But Not Just in Science — Who Can Still Believe the “Elites”?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Physical Sciences

2}

The comforting old assumption seems more hollow by the day. The “gathering revolt” has arrived. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, creator, faith, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, mathematician, Oxford University, Science Uprising, Stephen Hawking, universe}

Oxford’s John Lennox: Why Science and the Universe Itself Call for a Creator

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

That there is something at all rather than nothing is a truth that atheists Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, and others have sought to smooth other. Read More ›

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Date
September 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, ants, arthropods, Caltech, Cornell University, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, mechanics, PNAS, soil, Stephen Meyer, superorganism}

Insects and Design: Ant and Honeybee Engineers

_{Science and Culture
September 23, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

If you’ve ever watched ants busily tunneling in an ant farm, you may have noticed that the intricate finished product rarely collapses. Why is that? Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineering, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, intelligent design, Marrella, MIT, PNAS, spider silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites}

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
September 21, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, benzene, Bob Hope, Canadians, cancer, comedy, God Hypothesis, intuition, jokes, Leo Tolstoy, leukemia, moth, murder, North America, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Saturday Night Live, scientists}

Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
September 21, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Norm casually took on the entire scientific community for “refusing to explore” what he considered the “fundamental question” of God’s existence. Read More ›