Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, athletes, fire, Fire-Maker series, gravity, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Mass, muscles, Steven Vogel, terrestrial organisms, vertebrates}

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

_{Michael Denton
August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

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How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›

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Date
August 9, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, bacterial flagellum, co-option, cryo-electron microscopy, embryo, evolution, gears, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, podcast, random mutation, theistic evolution}

Listen: Michael Behe Answers Your Questions About Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
August 9, 2020

Intelligent Design

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What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 8, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
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, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, convergence, convergent evolution, Darwinism, engineer, Ernst Mayr, flowering plants, François Jacob, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, St. George Jackson Mivart, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tinkerer}

Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, amniotes, evolution, genome, living fossils, Nature (journal), New Zealand, vertebrates}

“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

_{Paul Nelson
August 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Read More ›

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Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, bats, BBC News, Chinese Academy of Sciences, cockroach, engineers, geckos, humpback whale, intelligent design, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Max Planck Institute, Nature Communications, Northwestern University, pollen, Robert Full, sea slug, squid, U.C. Irvine, U.C. San Diego, University of Bristol, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Wright brothers}

Human Engineers Can’t Top These Biological Intelligent Designs

_{Science and Culture
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design

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In labs around the world, scientists are fascinated by living designs. Here are just a few examples of what is being reported on a weekly basis. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, African Savannah, American Scientist, Aristotle, fire, Fire-Maker series, Giant Pagan, Giant Pope, hands, height, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, Pilgrim’s Progress, Richard Wagner, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel}

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, anthropology, culture, Darwinism, evolutionists, humans, intimacy, materialistic science, police, Portland, protests, sex, speech, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, anthropology, apes, evolution, females, humans, males, mammals, natural selection, sex, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced technology, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, kilns, metallurgy, metals, Stone Age, terrestrial organisms}

How Man Became the Fire-Maker

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, birds, blood, bones, brain, cartilage, chicken-and-egg problem, chromosomes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, evolution of the sexes, female, fertilization, fingers, fish, genitals, hormones, inbreeding, joints, ligaments, male, muscles, natural selection, nerves, occipital lobes, ovum, primates, procreation, Science (journal), Science Advances, sperm, swimming, Wright brothers, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 5, 2020

Evolution

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It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›