Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Deborah Blum, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Ghost Hunters, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, Jane Austen, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lord Acton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Sade, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Samuel Johnson, Social Darwinism, Stanley L. Jaki, Superman, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, The Odyssey, Thomas Carlyle, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

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The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, oxygen, physicians, Ray Bohlin, tissues}

How the Body Meets Its Need for Oxygen — A Doctor Explains

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Finely tuned and exquisitely engineered, this system gave our ancestors enough oxygen not only to stay alive but to thrive in the face of grave challenges. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 15, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, advanced technology, atmosphere, breathing, carbon, electromagnetic spectrum, embryos, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, Lawrence Henderson, metabolic energy, oxidation, oxygen, respiration, The Fitness of the Environment, X-ray}

Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence

_{Michael Denton
August 15, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life. Read More ›

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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
Tagged
, 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

4}

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
Tagged
, 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 ›