Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Bethesda (magazine), censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, hormone injections, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, layoffs, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, reform, research funding, respondents, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration}

Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, beliefs, belonging, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, faith and science, fear, Francis Collins, Jay Bhattacharya, John Mac Ghlionn, John West, media, ministry, National Institutes of Health, Politico, praise, promotions, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity}

Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

_{David Klinghoffer
March 28, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Scientific Freedom

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How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, biology, Darwinism, DNA, heuristic, junk DNA, junk RNA, lncRNAs, long noncoding RNAs, mRNA, neo-Darwinian paradigm, Nobel Prize, predictions, proteins, RNA, scientific progress, The Catalyst, Thomas Cech, W. W. Norton}

Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA”

_{Daniel Witt
March 28, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, episodic memory, footsteps, hippocampal memories, hippocampus, infancy, infantile amnesia, Medical XPress, memory, Nick Turk-Browne, sci-fi, Science (journal), statistical learning, Tristan Yates, Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 28, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Biomimetics, David Coppedge, Deightoniella, ferns, fungi, ID the Future, intelligent design, jackhammers, missiles, natural designs, nutrients, Pilobolus, plant anatomy, plant reproduction, plant root systems, podcast, root hairs, root tips, roots, soil, spores, squirt gun, stabilizers, turgor pressure, water}

Missiles and Jackhammers: How Plants Spread Themselves Far and Wide

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 27, 2025

Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I welcome science reporter David Coppedge to explore some fascinating examples of intelligent design in the plant world. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, David G. King, Discovery Institute, embedding, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, lineage selection, Luis Zaman, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, natural selection, Neil Thomas, New Coke, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, Southern Illinois University, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, biology, C. elegans, caterpillar, Center for Science and Culture, complexity, Creepy Crawly Complexity, earthworms, ecosystem, education, educators, George Damoff, Great Northern University, How to Code Life, insects, Intelligent Design Education Day, megradrilologists, Metamorphosis (film), parents, Pedro Moura, roundworms, science educators, Seattle, spiders, Spokane, Summer Seminar, Tiny Tech, Washington State, worms}

Latest — and Largest — Intelligent Design Education Day Explores “Creepy Crawly Complexity”

_{Daniel Reeves
March 27, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, Bobby Schindler, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, Dominic Sisti, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Hastings Center, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, siblings, sustenance, Terri Schiavo, Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Angel Eduardo, Canada, cancel culture, Conrad Black, conspiracy theory, COVID-19, distrust, Greg Lukianoff, lab leak theory, misinformation, public, residential school denialism, Rikki Schlott, scientific reliability, The Canceling of the American Mind}

On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 26, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Cleveland, corrosiveness, culture, Darwinism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, Eric Pianka, evolutionary theory, humans, John West, life, mankind, misanthropy, molecular biologists, political scientists, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, The Lyceum, University of Texas}

West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Read More ›