Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, sun}

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

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Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cellular machines, Charles Darwin, children, common descent, devolution, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, factories, headlines, machines, Modern Synthesis, molecules, multiverse, National Geographic, natural genetic engineering, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, parents, Potemkin village, protoplasm}

Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution

_{Michael Behe
April 25, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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As with the legendary fake villages, evolutionary theory consists of a thin façade cloaking a lack of substance. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia}

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, fine-tuning, fluctuations, intelligent cause, laws of nature, Lucretius, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marvel Cinematic Universe, measure problem, multiverse, parallel universes, philosophers, physical constants, physicists, thermal equilibrium}

Is the Multiverse Real?

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, beaches, birds, Caretta caretta, compass, declination, destination, inclination, intelligent design, intensity, loggerhead turtles, magnetic field, magnetic signature, magnetoreception, map coordinates, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, North Pole, radio frequency, sea turtles, South Pole}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

5}

All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Antonio Gramsci, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Rufo, Communists, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, DNA, How the Regime Rules, Larry Sanger, Marxists, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Political Science

3}

There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Read More ›

Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Andrew McDiarmid, apologetics, Christianity, clergy, courage, editors, faith, ID the Future, Larry Sanger, Nathan Jacobson, neutrality, online encyclopedias, podcast, religion, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›