Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, ecosystem, Ediacaran biota, feeding traces, fossil record, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series}

Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2020

Ecology, Evolution

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Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, beetles, butterflies, Charles Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Lepidoptera, Michael Flannery, Robert Darwin, Robert McCormick, summer, The World of Life}

For Labor Day Weekend: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science and Culture
September 5, 2020

Evolution

4}

Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Origin of Life
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, biological diversity, Center for Science and Culture, education, Evolution News, Free Science, free speech, ideology, intelligent design, professors, resources, students, Tony Woodlief, Wall Street Journal}

If Your Free Speech Is Threatened, Let Us Know

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 4, 2020

Origin of Life, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

2}

As the school year starts, I’m wondering how many students and professors will find themselves in difficult positions. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionists, Herbert Spencer, historiography, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Jerry Coyne, John Tyndall, natural theology, Overruling Intelligence, The World of Life, Thomas Henry Huxley, William A. Dembski}

A. R. Wallace Is Evolution’s Last Man Standing

_{Science and Culture
September 4, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Only Wallace’s postulation of an “Overruling Intelligence” to explain the complexities of humanity and nature has stood the test of time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, holotype, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea, Zimnie Gory}

Kimberella — A Checkered History

_{Günter Bechly
September 4, 2020

Evolution

7}

John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. Read More ›

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Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, chemical evolution, DNA, early Earth, Eric Anderson, evolution, Günter Bechly, hopeful monster, human origins, ID the Future, membranes, metabolism, New Scientist, podcast, RNA, Rob Stadler}

“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?

_{Science and Culture
September 3, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” Read More ›

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Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, atheism, atoms, BioLogos, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, genes, glands, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, probability, puppet, Richard Dawkins, The World of Life, theistic evolution, theists}

Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow

_{Science and Culture
September 3, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Nature’s prophet and Darwin's challenger, Wallace's effort was to restore nature to the “space-spirit hierarchy” it once knew. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks, Nephrozoa, Protostomia}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

3}

If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, academic freedom, American Revolution, arson, conservatives, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Douglas Axe, free speech, French Revolution, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, John Adams, looting, Marxism, Oregon, Portland, Richard Sternberg, rioting, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The New Criterion, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Woodlief, Wall Street Journal, Wesley Smith, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall, Yale University}

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

7}

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›

The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agnostics, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, common ancestry, evolution, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, James Tour, Jerry Coyne, mainstream science, Michael Behe, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Sapientia, Sean McDowell, Stephen Meyer, Templeton Prize, The Genealogical Adam and Eve, Venn diagram, Walter Bradley}

On the Swamidass Hypothesis — The Cheese Stands Alone

_{Paul Nelson
September 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

We have a lonely hypothesis standing by itself in the center of the room, which no one, including its author, will own as true. Read More ›