Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, American Journal of Botany, angiosperms, Aphrodite, BBC, British Museum, China, Cretaceous Period, flowering plants, fossil record, gymnosperms, Jurassic, On the Origin of Species, paleobotanists, Patrick Herendeen, Richard Buggs, The Times (London)}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

_{Günter Bechly
June 11, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, college students, education, extraterrestrials, faith, ID the Future, medicine, mind, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Stephen Meyer}

Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show

_{Science and Culture
June 10, 2021

Intelligent Design

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At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
June 10, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, mind, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement of parts, spandrels, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer}

Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

_{Michael Behe
June 10, 2021

Intelligent Design

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A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, animation, atheism, digital information, DNA, Evolution News, intelligent design, iPhone, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Twitter}

Dawkins Is Knocked “Sideways with Wonder” by Cell’s Design

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Technology

3}

Yes, he doesn't call it "intelligent design," of course, and I'm confident he would deny the cell is designed. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
June 9, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, ARF, China, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Nature (journal), scientists, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith}

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

_{Elizabeth Whately
June 9, 2021

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine

7}

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, The Last Resort, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, David Wolpert, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, genes, insight, intelligence, intelligent design, machine learning, natural selection, No Free Lunch, proteins, search, The Blind Watchmaker, unguided evolution, William Macready}

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, Brownian motion, entropy, flagellum, intelligent design, microtubules, National Institute of Standards and Technology, PNAS, Science (journal), Simon Fraser University}

Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2021

Intelligent Design

7}

Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, BioLogos, Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darrel Falk, Denis Lamoureux, developmental gene regulatory networks, evolution, evolutionary creation, intelligent design, Jim Stump, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, neo-Darwinian theory, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

_{David Klinghoffer
June 7, 2021

Faith & Science

3}

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 7, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, affordances, biomimicry, Casey Luskin, Dominic Halsmer, earth, Hacking the Cosmos, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Oral Roberts University}

Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

_{Jonathan Witt
June 7, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life. Read More ›