Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, descent with modification, equivocation, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Evolution News, human beings, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), public opinion, survey, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, unguided processes, United States}

Equivocation as a Tactic in the Evolution Debate

_{Jonathan Wells
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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How many Americans accept Darwin's belief that human beings are the result of an unguided, purposeless process? This survey doesn't come close to telling us. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, African Americans, Darwinism, Human Zoos, methodological naturalism, Racism, religion, Scientific American, Tulane University}

Is Methodological Naturalism Racist?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 27, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Philosophy

4}

It is well established that people of color are poorly represented in STEM fields compared with their representation in the larger population. Read More ›

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Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, Eric Anderson, evolution, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, kidneys, podcast, Science Daily, sodium, Systems Biology}

Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution

_{Science & Culture
August 26, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anglo-Saxons, Anthropic Principle, astrophysics, Bertrand Russell, cosmic fine-tuning, Friedrich Nietzsche, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, Nazis, New Atheists, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Richard Dawkins, The Privileged Planet, Voltaire, World War II}

Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

_{Neil Thomas
August 26, 2021

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

11}

What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromosomes, daughter cells, DNA replication, histones, intelligent design, kinesin, microtubules, molecular machines, Veritasium, YouTube videos}

Spectacular Video on Molecular Machines and Cell Replication

_{Casey Luskin
August 26, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

2}

Back in June I published a critique of a video posted on the popular YouTube science channel Veritasium. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, common descent, creationists, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, Glenn Branch, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), unguided evolution, University of Michigan}

Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”

_{Casey Luskin
August 25, 2021

Evolution

4}

Whether their question was chosen intentionally to inflate the degree of support for “evolution,” I cannot say. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, evolution, Georges Cuvier, intelligent design, materialism, MIT Press, paleontologists, somatic cells, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, teleology}

The Return of Teleology to Biology

_{Brian Miller
August 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2021

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Brian Keating, courage, interview, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego, USA Today}

Stephen Meyer: “Into the Impossible” with Brian Keating

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2021

Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Planetology

2}

Meyer answered philosophical, spiritual, and quite personal questions from Professor Keating on his podcast, "Into the Impossible." Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
August 24, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, building blocks, Long Story Short, molecules, Murchison meteorite, researchers, The Stairway to Life, water, YouTube videos}

Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

_{Rob Stadler
August 24, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

5}

They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek. Read More ›