Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, brood chambers, bryozoans, calyx, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran animals, entoprocts, folds, homology, lobes, Lophotrochozoa, lophotrochozoans, lumens, moss animals, Namacalathus, Second Namacalathus Series}

Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

_{Günter Bechly
January 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, cells, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, evolution, genes, ID the Future, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, molecular machines, mutations}

A Mousetrap for Darwin, and Another for Lenski

_{Jonathan Witt
January 18, 2021

Evolution

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"There have been no mutations...identified that appear to be on their way to constructing elegant new molecular machinery of the kind that fills every cell." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, character, civil rights, consciousness, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Nature, philosophical idealism, Physics and Philosophy, racial equality, skin color, universe}

Martin Luther King on the Primacy of Idea over Material

_{David Klinghoffer
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design

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It’s a necessary effort to stop oneself from longing for the great men and women of the past, even just the past century. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, brood chambers, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophophorates, lophotrochozoans, lumens, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Second Namacalathus Series, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 17, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Herbert Spence, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 17, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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I have no idea what King would have thought of the modern theory of intelligent design, but many of the ideas he expressed are certainly friendly to ID. Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, kin selection, love, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines}

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, astrophysicist, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, intelligent design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, podcast, solar system, William A. Dembski}

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2021

Physical Sciences

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Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, alpha male, animals, beauty, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, gorillas, hierarchy, intelligent design, John Zmirak, teleology, The Stream, YouTube videos}

When Darwinism Reigns, “The Pyramid Is the Point”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 14, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, Christopher Hitchens, cosmic fine-tuning, Denyse O'Leary, fanaticism, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, physical existence, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Atheist Christopher Hitchens: Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
January 14, 2021

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Following Denyse O’Leary, I referred earlier to the curious but, on reflection, not surprising messy nature of the “magic” numbers that rule our universe. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, Denyse O'Leary, Mind Matters, molecules, Natalie Wolchover, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nobel Prize, numbers, scientists, University of Colorado}

The Messy Numbers that Signify Cosmic Design

_{David Klinghoffer
January 14, 2021

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If you’ve ever tuned a violin, you’ll know that the arrangement of the fine tuners on the tailpiece, once you’re done, looks arbitrary. Read More ›