Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, God Hypothesis, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer}

Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”?

_{Casey Luskin
August 20, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, apes, brain, Charles Darwin, Great Britain, humans, Prime Minister, The Descent of Man}

In Darwin, the Descent of a PR Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 19, 2021

Evolution

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Darwin's reiteration here and elsewhere of the phrase “we may confidently believe” veils the tenuous truth-value of what he proposes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Africans, atheism, causal circularity, Charles Murray, computer code, DNA, Douglas Murray, faith, First Cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, molecular machines, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Return of the God Hypothesis, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, The Privileged Planet, Tom Holland}

Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

_{Casey Luskin
August 19, 2021

Faith & Science

6}

From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, barometer, blood pressure, electrolytes, Eric Anderson, evolution, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, Science Daily, University of Virginia}

Scientists Discover Nanotech for Blood Pressure

_{Science and Culture
August 19, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

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Dr. Howard Glicksman and host Eric Anderson walk through the discovery and explore how these high-tech blood pressure barometers, or “baroreceptors,” work. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 18, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID research program, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem}

In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” for Coordinated Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
August 18, 2021

Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics

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The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Charles Murray, God Hypothesis, Jacques Barzun, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, Judaism, materialism, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Wagner, Ross Douthat, Scientific American, scientific atheism, scientism, scientists, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, Tom Holland}

Meyer: “Twilight of the Godless Universe”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2021

Faith & Science, Physics

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What is that “different direction” that Steve Meyer refers to? It looks less like a twilight and more like a dawn. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
August 17, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, carbohydrates, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Change Laura Tan, experiments, heart disease, heart failure, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, nucleotides, Pier Luigi Luisi, prebiotic Earth, reagents, researchers, Stanley Miller, The Stairway to Life, YouTube videos}

New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research

_{Rob Stadler
August 17, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 16, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, aliens, background knowledge, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Miller, evolution, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, James Croft, James Tour, knowledge, Mars, monolith, Moon, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 16, 2021

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 15, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute}

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 15, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, evolution, fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, re-animation, skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

_{Science and Culture
August 14, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Read More ›