Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, bioengineering, chemicals, conformity, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, masks, morality, Racism, teleology, The Conversation, transhumanism}

“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

_{Richard Weikart
August 14, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Medicine

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Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Adam Shapiro, Anthony Fauci, bioengineering, COVID-19, intelligent design, laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases}

Intelligent Design and COVID-19: Take a Seat for This Criticism

_{Michael Egnor
August 14, 2020

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Intelligent design scientists, Adam Shapiro thinks, could redeem ID as being “apolitical” precisely by playing politics with science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, axon, central nervous system, heat, humans, intelligent design, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Leon Kass, mammals, muscles, myelin, nerve fibers, pain, sense organs, touch}

A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves

_{Michael Denton
August 14, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Adam Shapiro, bats, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Current Biology, Darwinism, embryos, field work, intelligent design, lice, moths, Nature (journal), Nature Microbiology, pandemic, sampling, SARS-CoV-2, scientists, spike protein}

There’s Implicit ID Research on COVID-19; What About Explicit?

_{Michael Egnor
August 13, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The reason for the relative silence on the origin of COVID by explicit ID scientists is simple. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cornea, fire, Fire-Maker series, Homo sapiens, invertebrates, mammals, muscles, nerve conduction, nervous system, reflexes, walking}

For Fire, Nature Obliges Us with Rapid Reflexes

_{Michael Denton
August 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

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One area where very fast nerve conduction is vital is vision, more specifically, in keeping the eyes fixed on some object in the field of vision while in motion. Read More ›

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Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
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, atheism, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, faith, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, mythology, National Geographic Channel, pantheism, podcast, resurrection, salvation, sin, Unbelievable}

When Cosmos Brought Pantheist-Atheist Mythology into the Open

_{Science and Culture
August 12, 2020

Faith & Science

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Everything comes together in a message that includes a creation myth, a story of sin (ecological sin), a salvation story, and even resurrection and ascension. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Adam Shapiro, American Scientist, Centers for Disease Control, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, human agency, intelligent design, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, specified complexity, viruses, WHO}

What Intelligent Design Research on COVID-19 Would Look Like

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Is there evidence for intelligent human agency in COVID-19, given its structure and what is known about its emergence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, blood, charcoal, circulatory system, Energy, Fire-Maker series, heart, human body, intelligent design, kilns, medical school, metabolic energy, metallurgy, molecular motor, muscles, myosin, oxygen, respiration, respiratory system, strength, wood}

What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?

_{Michael Denton
August 12, 2020

Intelligent Design

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As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), American Chemical Society, axon, Cambrian animals, China, Darwin's Dilemma, evolution, Foresight (book), Journal of Experimental Psychology, Marcos Eberlin, memory, mother-of-pearl, nacre, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Netherlands, Peking University, PNAS, Rube Goldberg device, Science Advances, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, water lilies}

In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology

_{Science and Culture
August 11, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Design with interdependent layers presents a challenge to neo-Darwinism. Natural selection is oblivious to anything but an immediate beneficial variation. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, community, elegance, Emily Kurlinski, friendship, ID the Future, inteligent design, interview, natural world, order, podcast, pseudonym, Research, Seattle, students, Summer Seminars}

Intelligent Design and the “Transformative” Summer Seminar: A Student Reflects

_{Science and Culture
August 11, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Read More ›