Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
August 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, allostery, bioRxiv, cells, cichlid fish, cilium, eukaryotic cells, foresight, glaucoma, intelligent design, Kyoto University, mechanotransduction, Nature (journal), Nature News and Views, phenotypic plasticity, Rube Goldberg, University of Montreal}

Cells Reach Out and Touch, Providing Evidence of Foresight and Design

_{Science and Culture
August 28, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Cells are equipped with sensors that recognize touch and respond accordingly. They can even reach out to other cells with nanoscopic tunnels and share parts. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, baseball, Christianity, chromosomes, common ancestry, Daniel Dennett, diploid cells, faith, first couple, mainstream science, methodological naturalism, Paul Nelson, reality, S. Joshua Swamidass, Sapientia, science, The Genealogical Adam and Eve, theology, Venn diagram}

Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 27, 2020

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, apes, atheism, babies, birth canal, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, childbirth, chromosomes, creativity, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), ductus arteriosus, earthquake, Ecuador, foresight, H.G. Wells, heteropalindromes, human evolution, humans, intelligent design, invention, Marcos Eberlin, Minnesota, orphan genes, oxygen, parable, Periodic Table, phenotypes, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 27, 2020

Anatomy, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, atheism, ATP synthase, Australia, biological systems, Cambrian Explosion, coffee, DNA, explanatory filter, fossil record, improbability, information, intelligent design, Internet, Mount Rushmore, mutations, natural processes, presidents, proteins, rock, William A. Dembski, young people}

Here Is How to Teach Intelligent Design to Young People

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2020

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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The first principle is helping participants discover the evidence for design themselves. Read More ›

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Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AAA proteins, allostery, amino acids, assembly, coevolution, cytoplasm, dynein, molecular machines, nucleolus, PNAS, polymerization, proteins, quantum mechanics, Ribosome, RNA, Rockefeller University}

Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 26, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, Judeo-Christian tradition, magic, morality, prophecy, Science, scientists, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, theism, twins}

Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis

_{James A. Herrick
August 26, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics

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This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Big Brother, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, regenerative medicine, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 25, 2020

Bioethics

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I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Change Laura Tan, DNA, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, medical engineering, podcast, Rob Stadler, Stairway to Life}

The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Internet, magic, mysticism, Nick Bostrom, noosphere, Olaf Stapledon, Ray Kurzweil, Ronald Bailey, Science, Teilhard de Chardin, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, University of Oxford}

C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 24, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Back to Methuselah, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, Possible Worlds, science fiction, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The World}

C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

_{James A. Herrick
August 23, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›