Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 20, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academic freedom, attorneys, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, earth sciences, ID research program, intelligent design, materialism, scientists, Stephen Meyer, worldview, YouTube videos}

The Return of Casey Luskin

_{John G. West
January 20, 2021

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design

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As I began writing this, I read one of the comments recently posted on our main YouTube channel: “I love Discovery Institute. You guys are changing the world!” Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2021

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, California, cells, Columbia University, CRISPR-Cas9, DNA, Escherichia coli, genes, information, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature (journal), New York City, ribosomes, semantic information, serine, steganography, translation}

DNA Storage Goes Biological

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2021

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

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DNA is already known to be an ideal storage medium. Why not use cells to do the hard work? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Geology
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic consensus, academic freedom, Casey Luskin, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, doctorate, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, patience, rocks, scientific investigation, Seattle, secrecy, South Africa, University of Johannesburg}

Dr. Casey Luskin Is in the Building!

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2021

Geology, Scientific Freedom

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The secrecy is really a lesson about the parlous state of academic freedom under Darwinist domination, especially here in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Brian Miller, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, common design, crocodiles, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, David Gelernter, dependency graph, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, hippos, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Jerry Coyne, John West, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, paleomagnetism, polar bears, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, Science (journal), South Africa, State Museum for Natural History, Stuttgart, Summer Seminars, UC San Diego, University of Johannesburg, volcanic rocks, Winston Ewert}

I’m Excited to Return to Discovery Institute to Find Intelligent Design Stronger Than Ever!

_{Casey Luskin
January 19, 2021

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Over the past few years, I’ve seen ID critics advance some wild and amusing conspiracy theories about the reasons for my departure and absence. Read More ›

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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

5}

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 ›