Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cryo-electron microscopy, Current Biology, Cyanobacteria, Darwinism, evolution, genetic code, intelligent design, metabolism, ocean, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, PNAS}

“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers

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January 28, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationism, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, deduction, DNA, evolution, inference, intelligent design, multiverse, panspermia, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Watch: Kid Explains Intelligent Design to His Dad

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The lucidity of the younger individual’s grasp of ID is quite something. Tor could probably help out in tutoring some adult ID critics I can think of. Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atomism, Chance and Necessity, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinism, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, fear, human beings, Jacques Monod, Lucretius, natural selection, Richard Dawkins}

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 27, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, calculus, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, hardware, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Nature (journal), navigation, neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto}

Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

_{Science & Culture
January 27, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, benevolence, Brian Keating, evidence, faith, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, Into the Impossible, Nobel laureates, podcast, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, UC San Diego}

When Physicists Clash: Brian Keating on the Atheism of Steven Weinberg

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

“Almost a designer”? Interesting choice of words. It’s remarkable to hear such a frank discussion. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, Canada, Eric Cassell, ethology, evolution, flies, Flight: The Genius of Birds, instinct, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mexico, Monarch butterflies, mosquitos, National Zoo, Nature (journal), navigation, olfaction, rats, Rockefeller University, sea turtles, Stephen Talbott}

Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes

_{Science & Culture
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Cicero, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Galen, intelligent design, Lucretius, Phoenix, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stoics, Thomas Aquinas}

The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism

_{Neil Thomas
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes. Read More ›

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Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, podcast, probability, rhetoric, strengths and weaknesses}

Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Geophysics
Origin of Life
Rare Earth
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysics, Cambrian Explosion, eukaryotes, evolution, geochemistry, geophysics, heme, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, iron, Mars, nutrients, oceans, Oxford University, oxygen, PNAS, supernova, toxicity, Washington University}

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

_{Science & Culture
January 25, 2022

Biology, Geophysics, Origin of Life, Rare Earth

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As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›