Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
February 16, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, events, ID the Future, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, registration, Robert Crowther, William A. Dembski}

William Dembski: Why I’m Returning to the Front Lines of Intelligent Design

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February 16, 2021

Intelligent Design

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The mathematician and philosopher also gives a sneak preview of the talk he plans to give at this Saturday’s Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, evolution, function, gene loss, genes, intelligent design, John Maynard Smith, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nature Heredity, phenotypes, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The literature is looking at the same data that intelligent design proponents are looking at, making similar observations, and asking similar questions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, chemists, Denis Lamoureux, DNA, Goldilocks, Harvard University, heat, hydrothermal vents, James Tour, Jeffrey Bada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John Sutherland, Lawrence Krauss, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Peter Ward, polymers, RNA, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, UV radiation, water}

Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, James Tour, lectures, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, YouTube videos}

Abiogenesis Series with James Tour: Watch Now

_{David Klinghoffer
February 14, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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The incomparable chemist James Tour has launched his new series on abiogenesis — the origin of life from non-life. Read More ›

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Date
February 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, eugenics, Europeans, Francis Galton, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Martin Luther King Jr., materialism, scientific racism, sterilization, theology, Victorian England}

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

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February 13, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, faith, HarperOne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Paul Ashby, Return of the God Hypothesis, Russell W. Carlson, Science, slaves, Stephen Meyer, United States, University of Georgia}

For Darwin and Lincoln’s Birthday, Pre-Order Return of the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
February 12, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Today’s date in history, 211 years ago — February 12, 1809 — was a remarkable day. Read More ›

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Date
February 12, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, bacteria, beehive, bioRxiv, E. coli, enzymes, Francis Bacon, honey, honeybees, hydrogen peroxide, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Moringa oleifera, pain, Smithsonian Magazine, sugar, UC Davis, University of Zurich, viscosity}

Put Some of This on That Wound, Honey

_{Science and Culture
February 12, 2021

Intelligent Design

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The antiseptic properties of natural honey are getting more attention as antibiotic-resistant bacteria proliferate. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, chemists, Christianity, Discovery Institute, faith, James Tour, Science, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

New Abiogenesis Series: James Tour Strikes Back

_{David Klinghoffer
February 11, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

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Delightful — a hapless critic snarked that chemist James Tour’s detonation of theories of abiogenesis were off-base because Tour believes in Jesus. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, genome, Human Errors, human genome, intelligent design, Nathan Lents, open reading frame, ORfan genes, orphan genes, undirected evolution, yeast}

Human Orphan Genes — Interesting YouTube Talk Tonight by Nathan Lents

_{Paul Nelson
February 11, 2021

Evolution

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A couple of years ago, Professor Lents became fascinated by orphan genes, and went looking for them in the human genome. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Day, evolutionary racism, Frederick Douglass, freedom, humans, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

_{Michael Flannery
February 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›