Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
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, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, CBC TV, Chippewa, Frank Bibeau, lawsuit, manoomin, Minnesota, Nature, nature rights, Ojibwe, pollution, water}

Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2021

Bioethics

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Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, cancel culture, Canceled Science, Eric Hedin, intelligent design, Jennifer Kabbany, Jerry Coyne, Nobel Prize, The College Fix, universe, University of Chicago}

Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin

_{David Klinghoffer
August 12, 2021

Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam Hochschild, colonialism, Congo, Darwinism, documentary, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker, Human Zoos, John Hawks, John West, King Leopold, Philippines, Royal Museum for Central Africa, St. Louis, Summer White House, Tervuren, U.S. Presidents, Walker’s Point, World's Fair}

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Education
Tagged
, biological information, biologists, Cambridge University, chemical evolution, Dallas, Dean Kenyon, DiscoveryU, DNA, intelligent design, San Francisco State University, self-organization, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Education

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Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Design Inference, human origins, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Neanderthals, ochre, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Spain, water}

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, Science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
August 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, building blocks, Center for Science and Culture, cheating, Discovery Institute, first cell, geologists, homology, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Long Story Short, materialists, physicists, popular media, premiere, researchers, scientists, YouTube videos}

New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell. Read More ›

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Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Eric Anderson, hospitals, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Science, universities}

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

_{Science and Culture
August 10, 2021

Faith & Science

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Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›