Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
August 24, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Agnieszka Wołos, Allchemy, building blocks, clay, limestone, Long Story Short, molecules, Murchison meteorite, researchers, sand, The Stairway to Life, water, YouTube videos}

Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

_{Rob Stadler
August 24, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, academia, agnostics, Darwinists, Discovery Institute Press, England, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, materialism, Neil Thomas, rationality, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Neil Thomas: Not at All THAT Sort of Person

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2021

Evolution

1}

He is not at all THAT sort of person, the kind one might expect to find waging a campaign against modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, emergence, evolutionary mechanism, intelligent design, Michael Behe, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, synthetic biology, Systems Biology}

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance medical directive, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, medicine, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 22, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›

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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

7}

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

4}

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

2}

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

7}

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

4}

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