Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, bioethics, culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic}

Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, CT scan, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, ATP, Brian Miller, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolic pathways, origin of life, PNAS, podcast, proteins, snake, Stephen Meyer, transcription, translation}

Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Alumni Mentoring Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Brian DeVries, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, education, educators, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary biology, ID research program, IDEA Clubs, intelligent design, Ivy League, Jonathan McLatchie, scientists, South America, Steve Dilley, students, Summer Seminar graduates, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design}

Help Us Mentor the Next Generation of Intelligent Design Scientists and Scholars

_{Casey Luskin
April 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Emily Reeves, a PhD staff scientist at Discovery Institute, has mentored an Ivy League postdoc in the field of molecular biology for the past five years. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, blueprint, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chromosomes, cohesins, condensins, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrostatics, EMBO Journal, error catastrophe, genome, gravity, Hurricanes, lipidome, mitochondria, mitosis, mutations, physical laws, Plato's Revenge, proteome, replication accuracy, respirasome, respiration, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), Skinner’s Constant, tornadoes, University of Massachusetts}

A Cell Makes “Decisions” — But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?

_{David Coppedge
April 15, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Watching cells under a microscope, we sense familiarity with their challenges when they face puzzles. How is this possible if their nature is strictly physical? Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, biologists, biology, computer scientists, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, control systems, degradation, engineering, engineers, events, intelligent design, lifecycle processes, living systems, medical practitioners, process designers, resilience, Seattle, Seattle University, systems modelers, theory of stasis, theory of the generative}

You’re Invited: CELS 2025 Applications Are Open!

_{Steve Laufmann
April 15, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This is not a conference for listening to ID thought leaders (though many will be there), but an opportunity to jump in and become part of the conversation. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apoptosis, axial filament, Bacillus subtilis, biological systems, chromosome, cortex, dehydration, desiccation, dormancy, flagellar genes, forespore, gene coding, heat, master-architect, mother cell, peptidoglycan, regulator, Salmonella, signaling protein, Spo0A, SpoIIR, spore, spore coats, sporulation, transcriptional hierarchy, UV radiation}

Sporulation: Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples like this suggest the existence of a master-architect behind biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bureaucrats, carbon trading, dams, development, ecosystems, free market, Great Lakes, human flourishing, industry, legislation, life forms, monetization, nature rights, New York State, Ohio, patenting, Toledo, water, watersheds}

New York State: Rights for Lakes, Waterways

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

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For the future good of human flourishing, we need to take the “nature rights” movement seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, anti-slavery, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinian theory, historical fiction, history of science, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, intelligent design, James Moore, Michael Keas, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, truth}

Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 12, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abortion, animals, Anthropology.net, brain, brain size, cerebral cortex, chimpanzees, conjoined twins, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, genes, German Primate Center, Human, human brain, human mind, intelligence, Kambiz Kamrani, mice, Michael Egnor, neocortex, Research, split brain, The Immortal Mind}

Big Human Brain from…Just Two Genes?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 11, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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The genes, unique to humans, spurred brain growth when introduced in mice and chimpanzee stem cells. Read More ›