Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
October 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amoeba, bacterial flagellum, bacterium, behaviorism, cytoplasm, E. coli, fitness, Lawrence Henderson, liver cells, molecular biology, Nature (journal), paramecium, protozoans, skin cells, Stentor, The Fitness of the Environment, third infinity}

Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

_{Michael Denton
October 2, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, carbon, Charles Darwin, Cyanobacteria, Dr. Pangloss, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, metazoans, meteorites, Michael Denton, natural selection, optimization, Paul Davies, purpose, quantum mechanics, satire, The Miracle of the Cell, Voltaire, wonder}

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

_{Rob Sheldon
October 1, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, airplanes, Arthur Eddington, closed system, computer simulations, computers, electromagnetic force, encyclopedias, gravitational force, intelligence, Internet, keyboards, Mathematical Intelligencer, natural selection, novels, PDE2D, planets, Second Law of Thermodynamics, strong and weak nuclear forces, Why Evolution Is Different}

My Failed Computer Simulation

_{Granville Sewell
October 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physics

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I said, “You mean there is a fifth force — why didn't you say so? Just give me the equations for this force and I will add it to my model.” Read More ›

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Date
September 30, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, fitness, form, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, locomotion, Michael Denton, podcast, primal blueprint, The Miracle of the Cell, third infinity}

Michael Denton Explores the “Third Infinity”

_{Science and Culture
September 30, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, indeed ingenious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 30, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, atoms, beauty, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, debates, faith, God’s Not Dead, human consciousness, Internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, john lennox, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kevin Sorbo, mathematician, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, science, theaters, theism}

Why Something Instead of Nothing? November 19, Oxford’s John Lennox Goes “Against the Tide”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 30, 2020

Faith & Science

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Trumpeters for atheism are not being truthful when they say things like “Religion teaches us to be satisfied with not really understanding.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Cicero, common sense, cosmological argument, David Hume, Evolution News, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Barham, Jay Richards, metaethics, Michael Denton, moral phillosophy, natural theology, Plato, podcast, realism, Scotland, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, Thomas Reid, University of Glasgow}

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2020

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›

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Date
September 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, catalysis, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwinian evolution, dimers, drive shaft, enzymes, hook, imaging techniques, Institute of Science and Technology, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John E. Walker, Leonid Sazanov, lipid bilayer, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nature Communications, Nobel Prize, PNAS, Scott Minnich, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, vibrations, water molecules}

New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized

_{Science and Culture
September 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

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With better imaging and analysis techniques, details about icons of design are coming into clearer focus. The icons are looking better than ever. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 28, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cosmic fine-tuning, first cell, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Denton, natural laws, planetary fine-tuning, primal blueprint, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell}

Denton “Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 28, 2020

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

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Given a "primal blueprint" that preceded the first life, the solution can only be intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, constraints, first cell, genius, information, intelligent design, life, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Denton, purpose, The Miracle of the Cell}

Eberlin: “Michael Denton Has Again Sent the Opponents of Cosmic Purpose Scurrying”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2020

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

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"Here we are confronted with definitive findings in favor of a powerful genius who foresaw and precisely orchestrated chemistry as a whole for life." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agency, bacteria, illusion, intention, life, Michael Denton, neutrophils, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Robert Crowther, Scott Turner, The Miracle of the Cell}

Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

_{David Klinghoffer
September 26, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes. Read More ›