Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, 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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
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, academic freedom, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Constitution, Critical Theory, Darwinists, dissidents, diversity, employment, Evolution News, free speech, Freudians, gulags, Maoists, Marxists}

When They Come for You — Some Helpful Tips

_{Michael Egnor
August 5, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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This strategy could be effective in dealing with the Darwinian totalitarians. Woke thugs, like Darwinist thugs, abhor having to explain themselves. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
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, Bioscience, critics, Darwinists, disease, evolution, filmmaker, fossil record, Jackson Wheat, Jerry Coyne, Long Story Short, Neo-Darwinism, population genetics, poster child, scientists, The Conversation, whales, Wikipedia, YouTube videos}

Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cells, cellulose, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, Goldilocks, humans, leaves, lignin, metallurgy, parsimony, photosynthesis, surface tension, tensile strength, tree trunks, water, wood}

Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony

_{Michael Denton
August 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, Andrew McDiarmid, cosmic fine-tuning, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, materialism, Robert Alston, universe}

Fine-Tuning in a Nutshell: No Problem

_{Science and Culture
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Though cosmic fine-tuning is often referred to as “the fine-tuning problem,” Robert Alston says it’s really no problem at all. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dan Graur, DNA, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, evolution, Evolution News, Ewan Birney, genomics, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, kidney cell, liver cell, MIT, National Institutes of Health, Nature (journal), RNA}

Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”

_{Science and Culture
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, evaporation, Fire-Maker series, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, N. Michele Holbrook, Physics Today, steel, Steven Vogel, tensile strength, The Life of a Leaf, trees, water}

A Remarkable Mechanism for the Existence of Large Trees

_{Michael Denton
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physics

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The mechanism represents a unique and stunningly brilliant solution to the problem of raising water to the top of large trees. Read More ›

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Date
August 3, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, evolution, free speech, Harvard University, Herman Bouma, Karl Nageli, Louis Agassiz, National Science Teaching Association, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, On the Origin of Species, pedagogy, professors, students, teachers}

To Avoid Debate, Darwinists at the AAAS Would Even Censor…Darwin

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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A modest proposal to teach evolution the way Darwin treated his own theory has “no support” from one of the world’s most powerful scientific organizations. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 3, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Albert Einstein, Australia, Charles Darwin, climate change, Climate Change: The Facts 2017, COVID-19, evolution, global warming, Great Barrier Reef, Institute of Public Affairs, James Cook University, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, Peter Ridd, United States, universities}

In Australia, Academic Freedom Case Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 3, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Professor Peter Ridd doubted that the Great Barrier Reef was almost dead due to global warming, and argued as much. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, evaporation, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, leaves, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, N. Michele Holbrook, pores, Steven Vogel, The Life of a Leaf, viscosity}

The Amazing Circulation System of Trees

_{Michael Denton
August 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Clearly, unless water can be drawn several meters up the conduits in their tree trunks, large woody trees would be impossible. Read More ›