Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, anti-intellectualism, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, biological adaptation, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, synthesis, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

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Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, annelids, Anomalocaris, arthropods, bristle worm, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Cryogenian Period, Darwinism, Darwinists, earthworms, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, microbes, Namapoikia rietoogensis, paleontologists, Porifera, precambrian fossils, sponges, stromatolites}

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2020

Evolution

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The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, African Savannah, atoms, bacteria, Big Bang, cheetahs, chemical elements, cynicism, Discovery Institute, elements, gazelles, hydrogen, intelligent design, King’s College London, media, Michael Denton, miracle, neutrophils, nitrogen, oxygen, Periodic Table, primal blueprint, relationships, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, Vanderbilt University, water, white blood cells}

New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature’s Miraculous “Primal Blueprint”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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To see cells in action, he notes a remarkable video, “Neutrophil Chasing Bacteria,” made in 1950s by a researcher at Vanderbilt University. Read More ›

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Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, genocide, ID the Future, Margaret Sanger, Michael Keas, Planned Parenthood, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, The Descent of Man}

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

_{Science and Culture
September 21, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Francesca Minerva, gestation, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy tissue, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 21, 2020

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
September 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Tagged
, bacteria, Big Bang, Center for Science and Culture, extraterrestrial life, Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, john lennox, multiverse, podcast, quantum cosmology, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, theology, viruses}

Tour, Meyer on the Multiverse, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 20, 2020

Astronomy, Cosmology

1}

In this third of three episodes with Stephen Meyer, James Tour draws from questions sent in by listeners to his own podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circulatory system, Cnidaria, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Kimberichnus, mollusks, movement, oxygenation, Paleobiology Database, Parvancorina, Precambrian, radula, scratch marks, Silurian Period, Solza}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

_{Günter Bechly
September 19, 2020

Evolution

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One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran "fossil problematica.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Calvin College, Christianity, complex systems, design triangulation, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, Hamlet, intelligent design, macroevolution, Michael Lynch, Michael Scriven, natural selection, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminar, Wayne State University, William A. Dembski}

Reform It Altogether — More on the Naturalistic Parabola

_{Paul Nelson
September 18, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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I’ve fussed about this point for a long time. And Discovery Institute colleagues have occasionally chided me for my obsession. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, gonads, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Lophotrochozoa, medusoid, Mollusca, monoplacophorans, Odontogriphus, scratch marks, Simon Conway Morris, Solza, tentacles, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

_{Günter Bechly
September 18, 2020

Evolution

12}

It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›