Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bioethics, Cell (journal), cells, embryo research, embryos, ethicists, fertilization, fetal farming, humans, New York Times, nonpersons, organ harvesting, patients, petri dish, redefinition, stem cells, zygote}

“Expedience Bioethics” Busts Moral Limits

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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When embryonic research first started, we were told that there would be a strict 14-day limit on researching embryos in petri dishes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, boys, California, children, Colorado, courts, dead name, discrimination, female sports, feminists, gender, girls, hormones, ideology, law, Maine, men, parental custody, puberty blockers, Scotland, Supreme Court (UK), United Kingdom, United States, women}

From the UK, Good News for Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Here’s hoping that in the U.S., women and girls can again be secure in female-only spaces. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beginning, Big Bang, Brian Miller, cosmology, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Lawrence Krauss, materialistic philosophy, physicists, physics, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science Uprising, South Australia, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Why the “Universe from Nothing” Model Points to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 18, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Did our universe come from nothing, as some physicists have proposed? This episode is built around a suggestion I recently received from a listener. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, algorithms, barium, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, newts, Perry Marshall, planarians, predictions, process flow diagrams, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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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 ›