Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, cells, Discovery Institute, engineers, error correction, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, physicists, podcast, researchers, Rice University, synthetic organic chemistry}

Tour, Miller: Cells, and Life, from a Design Perspective

_{Jonathan Witt
December 16, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The conversation turns to the challenge and necessity of quickly evolving error-correction mechanisms in origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, birth, gender, gender dysphoria, journals, man, nonbinary, social justice, Supreme Court, The New England Journal of Medicine, transgenderism, wokeness, woman}

Top Medical Journal: No Sex Designation on Birth Certificates

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports. Read More ›

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Date
December 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AlphaFold, amino-acid sequences, artificial intelligence, chaperones, DeepMind, DNA, Douglas Axe, engineers, enzymes, Evolution News, evolutionary algorithms, Ewen Callaway, Go (game), hyperdrive, intelligent design, Nature News, No Free Lunch, Nobel Prize, proteins, reverse-engineering, Science (journal), Signature in the Cell, Undeniable (book), University of Maryland, William A. Dembski}

Protein Folding Breakthrough: Evolution or Design?

_{Science and Culture
December 16, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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DeepMind, the AI company that beat human Go gamers with AlphaGo, has made progress in solving the protein folding problem. But who deserves the credit? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, churches, Darwin’s Three Big Ideas that Impacted Humanity, Evolution News, faith, ID research program, ID the Future, John West, Long Story Short, media, providence, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Science Uprising, secularism, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, synagogues, Wall Street Journal, worship}

Meyer: For the Scientific God Hypothesis, Next Year Will Be Pivotal

_{David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2020

Faith & Science

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Conceding that churches and synagogues aren’t “essential businesses” was a devastating admission for many professional religious leaders to make. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Christianity, Closer to Truth, consciousness, Design Inference, intelligent design, materialism, reality, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, William A. Dembski}

Consciousness Shows that Materialism Is False

_{Michael Egnor
December 15, 2020

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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My friend and colleague Bill Dembski, a leading advocate of intelligent design of the universe and life forms, has done a superb short interview. Read More ›

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Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, artifact hypothesis, biofilms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, China, conservation, Croatia, Darwinism, Ediacaran Period, Ernst Haeckel, fossil record, Greenland, Live Science, microfossils, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mouse, multicellular organisms, Opabinia, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Sebastian Willman, Stephen Meyer, The Scientist, Uppsala University, zebrafish}

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

_{Science and Culture
December 15, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Christianity, disorder, entropy, feedback loops, first cell, free energy, information, James Tour, Jeremy England, molecular engines, order, Rice University, Science & Faith podcast, thermodynamics}

Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Jonathan Witt
December 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, ferns, fungi, Hippocrates, history, lycophytes, Marcello Malpighi, mites, morphology, natural selection, nematodes, neo-Darwinians, plant galls, Rutgers University, viruses}

Plant Galls and Evolution: A Neglected Study

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 14, 2020

Anatomy, Botany, Life Sciences

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In my new contribution, I restrict myself to important facets of the historical side of plant gall research. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, childhood, David Reimer, females, gender dysphoria, John Money, males, mental health, ovaries, pediatricians, psychologists, puberty blocker, sex reassignment, sexual abuse, surgery, Sweden, testicles, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam}

Some Effects of Transgenderism

_{Jonathan Wells
December 14, 2020

Medicine

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Children with gender dysphoria need help. But transgender treatments for them are not based on good evidence. Read More ›

African savanna with mountain in national wild park

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 13, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian materialism, English literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, human origins, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, Robert Ardrey, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Time Machine, Unbelievable, weapons}

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

_{Jonathan Witt
December 13, 2020

Bioethics

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The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Read More ›