Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, Crete, Darwinian evolution, Dead Sea, DNA, entropy, intelligent design, Jerusalem, Judea, Masada, North Africa, Phoenix dactylifera, Qumran, Science Advances, seeds}

Resurrection Genomics: Millennia-Old Palm Trees Live Again

_{Science and Culture
June 4, 2021

Genetics, Life Sciences

7}

Seeds of date palms from the Judean desert, over 2,000 years old, have sprouted and grown into healthy trees. What can we learn from their genes? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, bones, Brian Miller, Cell (journal), common design, Darrel Falk, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, front-loaded design, Gerd Müller, homologous features, homology, intelligent design, mutations, Neil Shubin, Neo-Darwinism, novelty, phenotype, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stuart A. Newman, tetrapod, tetrapod limbs, zebrafish}

Revealing Darrel Falk’s Overstatements about Limb Bones in Fish Fins

_{Casey Luskin
June 3, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

The interpretation of the results as showing “latent” genetic capabilities has teleological overtones that are compatible with intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, argument from ignorance, brains, Center for Science and Culture, Daniel Reeves, Discovery Institute, events, ID the Future, intelligent design, minds, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, universe, Zoom}

ID as an “Argument from Ignorance”? And Other Questions for Stephen Meyer

_{Science and Culture
June 2, 2021

Intelligent Design

1}

He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 2, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, creationism, Darrel Falk, Michael Shermer, podcast, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sam Harris, scientific investigation, Stephen Meyer, theism}

“This Is Not Your Father’s Creationism”: Atheist Michael Shermer Meets Stephen Meyer

_{David Klinghoffer
June 2, 2021

Cosmology, Physical Sciences

3}

Every cosmology either has theistic implications, or ends up wrecking the basis for rational scientific investigation of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 2, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, atomism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Keener, Darrel Falk, Dogs, Epicureanism, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, genes, genetic variations, Gerd Müller, Hugo de Vries, intelligent design, materialists, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Paul, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Stoics, The Blind Watchmaker}

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

_{Brian Miller
June 2, 2021

Evolution

7}

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, Big Data, Carl Woese, Cédric Blais, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, eukarya, genomics, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, John M. Archibald, jumping genes, lateral gene transfer, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, taxonomy, Texas, transposons, Tree of Life}

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, Energy, faith, information, materialists, matter, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe}

No Wonder Atheists Resist the Big Bang

_{David Klinghoffer
June 1, 2021

Physical Sciences, Planetology

2}

Combined with the evidence of information periodically infused into biology, the observation of a start to the universe goes beyond generic intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Caltech, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darrel Falk, Darwin's Doubt, David Snoke, Douglas Axe, Eric Davidson, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary creation, gene regulatory networks, genes, GRNs, intelligent design, Michael Behe, population genetics, protein folds, proteins, purifying selection, Return of the God Hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

Darrel Falk’s Volte-Face on the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
June 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

I appreciate that Dr. Falk and his colleagues at BioLogos would like to engage in a productive “dialogue” with proponents of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
May 31, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, biochemists, blood cells, brain, caspases, cells, enzyme, Foresight (book), intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonas Salk, Kyoto University, lipids, Marcos Eberlin, microglia, Molecular Cell, phagocytes, phospholipid, Salk Institute}

Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
May 31, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

6}

“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 30, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dominic Halsmer, ID the Future, intelligent design, International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Nature, Oral Roberts University, peer-reviewed literature, podcast, universe}

Beautifully Engineered: Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
May 30, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design

1}

Dominic Halsmer describes signs of engineering he sees in nature, and explains some of the ways the universe appears strikingly bio-friendly. Read More ›