Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

3}

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

2}

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

3}

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

4}

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

3}

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

5}

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

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biogeography, Biology Direct, cells, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, intelligent design, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses}

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

_{Casey Luskin
June 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

9}

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteriophages, biological systems, biologists, CELS 2021, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denton, Discovery Institute, ecosystems, Engineering Research Group, engineers, human body, information, intelligent design, living systems, medical practitioners, molecules, researchers, Texas}

CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches

_{Steve Laufmann
June 11, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

2}

In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days. Read More ›

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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

9}

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

1}

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