Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 6, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anarthria, audible speech, brain, brain implant, brainstem stroke, California, cerebral cortex, communication, frustration, internal speech, isolation, paralysis, speech, stroke, Tibi Puiu, voice synthesizer, ZME Science}

Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

_{Science and Culture
April 6, 2025

Engineering, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, evangelizers, evolution, history, ID the Future, Luther College, Michael Keas, mythology, natural selection, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
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, Ben Marwick, China, craftsmanship, Denisovans, East Asia, humans, Ice Age, Middle Paleolithic, Neanderthals, Quina, stone tools, The Conversation, Yunnan province}

Neanderthals Keep Getting Smarter

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 4, 2025

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

3}

At one time, Neanderthals were considered stupid. Things have changed. Meanwhile, they are presenting some mysteries. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
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, American South, autobiography, barometers, Bible, California, clocks, daydreaming, health, inflammation, James Hutchings, Jeanne Carr, John Muir, Journal of Experimental Psychology, lamplighters, Madison, motivation, national parks, naturalists, nature, nostalgia, pain, physiology, sawmills, Sierra Nevada, stream of consciousness, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, thinking, wilderness, Wisconsin State Fair, Yosemite Valley}

Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Faith & Science

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The famous naturalist put human inventions aside to reap the benefits of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire}

Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, biology textbooks, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, friendship, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, peppered moths, podcast, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, wisdom}

A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagella, biology, chromosomes, engineered systems, Enterobacteriaceae, evolution, flagellar assembly, flagellin monomers, gene expression, genes, hook assembly, intelligent design, intelligent mind, proteins, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, RNA polymerase, Salmonella, sigma factor, transcriptional regulatory hierarchies}

Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A transcriptional hierarchy is a regulatory system in which genes are expressed in a specific ordered sequence. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1619 Project, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cisnormative, conservative Christians, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, David Moulton, Discovery Institute, Dover Area School District, Ernst Mayr, Evolution’s Rainbow, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, HMS Beagle, Holly Dunsworth, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, J.B.S. Haldane, Joan Roughgarden, Leif Jensen, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nikole-Hannah Jones, On the Origin of Species, orchids, pseudoscience, Sewell Wright, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

_{Robert Shedinger
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, connectivity, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, Rogier Mars, sight, sound, temporal cortex, thought, Tom Howarth}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, awake patients, brain, brain cortex, brain networks, brain stimulations, brain surgery, Christof Koch, Denyse O'Leary, electrical probe, fMRI studies, Integrated information theory, memories, mind, neuronal activation, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield

_{Michael Egnor
April 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought? Read More ›