Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Jeremy England, podcast, Rice University, Stephen Meyer}

Tour to Meyer: Make Your Best Case for the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

1}

James Tour and Stephen Meyer assess an exchange between two physicists about the origin of life, and Tour notes his hesitance about ID. Read More ›

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Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, antibodies, bioRxiv, biosphere, coral reefs, Darwinian evolution, environmental science, evolution, fish, homeostasis, hydrocarbons, intelligent design, Michael Behe, microbes, mutations, oceans, physiologists, plastic, PNAS, pollution, polyethylene, Saudi Arabia, sea turtles, The Edge of Evolution, waste products, Wired Magazine}

Plastic-Eating Microbes — “Rapid Evolution” May Not Be Darwinian at All

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Environmental scientists warn frequently that the world is drowning in plastic. Here is some unexpected good news. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cows, Dickinsonia, Germany, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus teruzzii, microbial mats, Middle Triassic, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, mouthparts, Odontogriphus, protozoans, radula, scratch marks, trace fossils, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

_{Günter Bechly
September 17, 2020

Evolution

4}

There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, chronotype variation, circadian clock, clocks, Cyanobacteria, Harvard Medical School, Japan, jet lag, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, neurons, PLOS ONE, PNAS, rats, sleep, suprachiasmatic nucleus, University of Illinois, University of Rochester, William Paley}

Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Australia, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, motility, mucus, scratch marks, sediments, White Sea}

Kimberella — Locomotory Tracks

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2020

Evolution

3}

But what about tracks of the moving animal? There are indeed some fossils from the White Sea. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, bonobos, civilization, climate change, culture, David Brooks, Fire-Maker, fires, flying squirrel, grooming, humans, hunting, intelligent design, metallurgy, Michael Denton, New York Times, Pan paniscus, primatology, psychoanalysis, Scott Adams, Wesley J. Smith}

Using Bonobos to Bash Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 16, 2020

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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As podcaster Scott Adams would say, there is simply no “payday” for these people in recognizing what makes us, as humans, unique. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, feeding apparatus, fossils, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, microbial mats, Mikhail Fedonkin, molluscan radula, morphology, proboscis, scratch marks, trace fossils, White Sea}

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

_{Günter Bechly
September 15, 2020

Evolution

8}

The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, basketball, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, fossils, humans, intelligence, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Lucy, pelvis, Rutgers University}

Doctor’s Diary: No “Butts” About It

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 15, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

5}

An anthropologist writes that the evolution of bipedal-walking primates was primarily caused by the shifting of select bones and muscles in the pelvis. Read More ›

Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Seilacher, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding apparatus, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, Kimberichnus teruzzii, locomotion, microbial mats, Russia, South Australia, teeth, trace fossils, Tübingen University, White Sea}

Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks

_{Günter Bechly
September 14, 2020

Evolution

5}

A former teacher of mine was the late Adolf Seilacher, who was a leading authority on trace fossils and who for obvious reasons preferred to be called "Dolf." Read More ›

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Date
September 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cell death, ID the Future, improbability, intelligent design, James Tour, naturalism, podcast, publications, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, synthetic organic chemistry, Thomson Reuters}

Tour, Meyer: Some Very Hard Problems Facing Origin-of-Life Research

_{Science and Culture
September 14, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

1}

The problems range from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies. Read More ›