Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 16, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, David Berlinski, designer, earth, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, laws of nature, Michael Denton, scientific discovery, scientists, universe}

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

_{Granville Sewell
June 16, 2021

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, coronavirus, COVID-19, Design Inference, intelligent design, policymakers, scientists, viruses, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: If COVID-19 Was Designed in a Lab, Here’s How the Designers Might Cover Their Tracks

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2021

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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William Dembski offers insightful analysis about how we could go about determining whether the virus was designed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, drug companies, intelligent design, New England Journal of Medicine, researchers, Richard Horton, scientists, skepticism, The Lancet}

“Trust the Scientists”? The World Catches Up with Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2021

Intelligent Design

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There is no substitute for independent thinking about science, whether you hold a science PhD or not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, China, Early Cretaceous, failed predictions, flowering plants, fossil record, gradualism, gymnosperms, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Triassic, Nature (journal), Norway, paleobotanists, Switzerland}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

_{Günter Bechly
June 15, 2021

Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, agnostics, Brian Josephson, Brian Keating, information, Into the Impossible, Justin Brierley, Nobel Prize, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theism, UC San Diego, Unbelievable, universe}

Physicist Brian Keating — God Hypothesis Is a “Page-Turner”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 14, 2021

Physical Sciences, Physics

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Most in the science world wouldn’t have the guts or the generosity or the adventurousness to praise a book about intelligent design that way. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Azusa Pacific University, bacteria, biologists, Carolyn Hovde, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, E. coli, engineers, ID the Future, intelligent design, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, Michigan State University, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

_{Jonathan Witt
June 14, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological designs, biologists, Cambridge, cells, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, engineers, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, living systems, medical practitioners, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, Paul Nelson, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, unguided evolution, William A. Dembski}

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 14, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Cretaceous Period, evolution, evolutionists, flowering plants, fossil record, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Jurassic period, molecular clocks, Nature Ecology & Evolution, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Neo-Darwinism, New Scientist, Patrick Herendeen, Richard Buggs}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2021

Evolution

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This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, birth, China, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, mammals, medicine, rats, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterus}

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abominable mystery, animal phyla, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Darwin's Doubt, discontinuity, Ediacaran fauna, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, Marten Scheffer, paleontologists, Princeton University Press, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, undersampling}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

_{Günter Bechly
June 12, 2021

Evolution

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There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Read More ›