Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Acheulean age, ancestors, bone tools, bones, elephants, hippos, hominins, human mind, knapping, Neanderthal man, paleontology, Renata F. Peters}

Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 24, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Date
March 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clock-maker, Cosmic Habitable Age, deism, designer, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

_{Science and Culture
March 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, biology, chemistry, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, faith and science, history of science, intelligent design, life, origins, scientific theories, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theistic evolution, UC Berkeley, universe}

Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 21, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, anxiety, Augustine Brannigan, college students, crying, emotional depression, experimental design, Office of Naval Research, penologists, persistent scientific errors, Philip G. Zimbardo, prison breaks, prisoner abuse, prisoners, psychologists, public policy, rage, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, San Quentin State Prison, self-correcting, social psychology, Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanford University, study design, Thibault Le Texier, University of Calgary}

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology

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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 20, 2025

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic disciplines, academic institutions, amateur science, Andrew McDiarmid, Anthony Watts, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christianity, climate change, common science, credentialism, culture, defining science, elitism, empirical science, experimental science, Forrest Mims, interviews, Maverick Scientist, PhD, prejudice, scientists, skeptics, Watts Up with That}

“What Is a Scientist?” A Fine Review for Forrest Mims

_{David Klinghoffer
March 20, 2025

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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"A critique of scientific elitism, and a guidebook for anyone who wants to pursue real science — regardless of credentials." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beneficial design, creator, David Coppedge, earth, functionality, George Washington Carver, GUT, Heather Gerrie, hidden treasures, junk DNA, Mark A. Anthony, nature, netherworld, peanut, PNAS, searching, soil, University of British Columbia}

In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures

_{Eric Hedin
March 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anecdotes, articles, atheism, books, hubris, humility, humor, ID the Future, intellectual honesty, intelligent design, interviews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Wells, online course, podcast, Richard Sternberg, scientific truth, video}

Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATP hydrolysis, cell death, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromatin, chromosome condensation, chromosomes, clawed frog, condensins, cytokinesis, DNA, Inner Centromere Protein, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinase, mice, mislocalization, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic chromosome, mitotic progression, phosphorylation, proteins, RNA interference, Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes, teleology, topoisomerase, topoisomerase IIα, Xenopus}

Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Benefits, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Frances Lee, harms, Italy, laptop class, lockdowns, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, Sara Talpos, Stephen Macedo, tunnel vision, World Health Organization}

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

_{Science and Culture
March 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Read More ›