Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes}

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, behavior, Casey Luskin, cooperation, Denyse O’Leary, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary theory, human behavior, intelligent design, love, morality, psychology, religion, Salvo Magazine, Science and Faith in Dialogue, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

If You Want Creative Storytelling, Look No Further than Evolutionary Psychology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 19, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

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If evolutionary psychology attempts to explain every behavior, including each behavior’s opposite, can it really explain anything? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Carl Sagan, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Crick, groupthink, Imperial College London, Leslie Orgel, Live Science, Lynn Margulis, Medium, National Geographic, Occam’s razor, origin of life, protocell, Star Trek, Star Wars, terraforming, Universe Today}

At Present, the Origin of Life Isn’t a Scientific Question; It’s a Political One

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Some answers are Correct Groupthink but others will get you Canceled. It’s not clear that the current approach will enable many more insights. Read More ›

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, inner speech, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

Flights canceled or delayed on information board, terrorism threat at airport

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideology, Jerry Coyne, journals, lawsuits, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix}

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025

Environment & Climate, Scientific Freedom

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In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Chronicle of Higher Education, consciousness, hostility, human mind, Mario Beauregard, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nature (journal), neuroscience, physics, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sam Harris, telepathy, The Immortal Mind, The Spiritual Brain}

In Science, the Cost of Defending Materialism Is Rising

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 18, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín raises — in the very venue that hosts, say, Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder — the validity of telepathy research. Read More ›

Study of quantum energy physics model of molecules and nuclear energy 3d rendering

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Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, cancel culture, conspiracy theorists, Eric Weinstein, Germany, Joe Rogan, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, language, physics, Piers Morgan, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, Wall Street Journal}

For Criticizing Her Field, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by Her Institution

_{Science & Culture
September 17, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

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Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, clouds, Eugene Wigner, France, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Gregor Mendel, Ignaz Semmelweis, Jews, mathematics, mountains, Nazis, Poland, reputation, Science (journal), Science News, trees, truth, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, William Harvey}

Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

_{David Coppedge
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, cofactors, David A. Hullender, DNA repair, elementary particles, Elsevier, Elsevier journals, enzymes, evolution, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma mycoides, naturalistic evolutionary processes, Olen R. Brown, oxidative phosphorylation, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, universe, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

To a Pro-Intelligent Design Paper, Biologist Jerry Coyne Reacts with Question-Begging

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The paper seeks to elucidate the plausibility of naturalistic evolutionary processes generating a minimal living cell. Read More ›