Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 6, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack}

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 6, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

8}

The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Read More ›

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Date
August 6, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, biomineralization, Charles Darwin, evolution, Germany, intelligent design, Japan, mother-of-pearl, nacre, Natural History Museum, oysters, pearls, PNAS, Scientific Reports, sea urchins, spicules}

By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster

_{Science and Culture
August 6, 2021

Intelligent Design

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The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anaximenes, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, daemons, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Fates, Greek gods, harpies, intelligent design, Iphigenia, King Agamemnon, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Romans, satyrs, Stephen Greenblatt}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

_{Neil Thomas
August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Declaration of Independence, gorilla, human origins, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Justin Brierley, materialism, Miracles (book), neo-Darwinian theory, Noam Chomsky, Patricia Churchland, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Unbelievable, William Graham, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

_{Casey Luskin
August 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics

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Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, David Boze, Eric Metaxas, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Miracles (book), podcast, religion, Science, Wall Street Journal}

Eric Metaxas: Science Actually Strengthens the Case for God

_{Science and Culture
August 5, 2021

Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

1}

Does a commitment to science mean the death of God? Metaxas answers: Just the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Allison Hopper, alt-right, Arizona, atheism, bedtime story, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Dan Falk, Darwinism, earth, Elizabeth Whatley, evolution, fiction, Human Zoos, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Croft, John West, Kirk Durston, meaning, multiverse, purpose, Racism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific American, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, Thomas Nagel, universe}

From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science Education
Tagged
, Claude Shannon, computer code, DiscoveryU, DNA, education, information, intelligent design, mathematician, quizzes, Return of the God Hypothesis, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer}

Understanding “Information” — A Key to the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science Education

2}

With reading assignments and quizzes, this course is a great way to polish your skills in explaining ID without suffering a spade-shoveling mishap of your own. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, atheism, Cupples Hall, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, human origins, Human Zoos, John Jay College, John West, Michael Behe, missing links, Nathan Lents, Nazis, Newspeak, polygenism, pseudoscience, Racism, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), St. Louis, St. Louis Republic, St. Louis World's Fair, Washington University}

Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", biologists, Eugene Koonin, ideology, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, beauty, Blaise Pascal, Caltech, Current Biology, diatoms, electron microscope, eukaryotes, frustules, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature by Numbers, Nature Scientific Reports, Poland, purpose}

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

_{Science and Culture
August 4, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›