Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African-American history, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Black Lives Matter, Bronx Zoo, Civic Biology, Cristián Samper, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, eugenics, evolutionary science, Fox News, George Floyd, Human Zoos, John West, Madison Grant, multiplication table, New York Times, Ota Benga, Philippines, pseudoscientific racism, pygmy, Robin DiAngelo, Seattle, The Passing of the Great Race, University of Washington, White Fragility, Wildlife Conservation Society}

Something Is Missing from Bronx Zoo’s Apology

_{David Klinghoffer
July 31, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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The truth is that placing a man in the Monkey House was intended as an education for the public in Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, charcoal, coal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, fuel, George Wald, inventiveness, metal, oxygen, photosynthesis, Prometheus, quantum tunneling, smelting, Stephen Pyne, Tim Lenton, wood}

Needed for Fire: All the Right Fuel

_{Michael Denton
July 31, 2020

Intelligent Design, Technology

4}

There is another aspect of the Earth’s environment that is absolutely crucial in allowing the utilization of fire for metal-based technologies. Read More ›

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Date
July 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, adaptive mutations, biologists, biology journals, bioRxiv, Darwin Centennial, E. coli, evolution, hybridization, intelligent design, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleobiology, peer review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, punctuated equilibrium, punk eek, random mutations, redundancy, Scopes Monkey Trial, stem cells, Stephen Jay Gould, sunflowers, University of British Columbia, University of Southern California}

Five New Biology Papers Show Cracks in Darwin’s Foundation

_{Science and Culture
July 30, 2020

Evolution

8}

Are there rumblings of discontent? Is it getting safer to question the claims of conventional neo-Darwinism? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, aluminum, ambient temperatures, copper, ductility, Earth’s crust, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, gold, iron, lead, machinery, mantle, metallurgy, metals, rocks, silver, steam engine, Stone Age}

In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

5}

If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity. Read More ›

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Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Medicine
Tagged
, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, coherence, communication, complexity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Hugo van Woerden, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, natural phenomena, semiotics, signs}

Beauty, Coherence, Semiotics, and the Coronavirus — Webinar Series Continues Thursday

_{Science and Culture
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Medicine

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Purely physical explanations have difficulty in explaining the language-like features of communication between the coronavirus and a cell. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, central dogma, centromere, chromosomes, cytology, cytoskeleton, Drosophila melanogaster, junk DNA, kinetochores, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, meiosis, nucleotides, oocyte, Paul Davies, Y chromosome, zygote}

DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

_{Richard Sternberg
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, ambient temperatures, atmosphere, copper, ductility, earth, electrical power, electricity, fire, Fire-Maker series, metals, respiration, steel, tensile strength}

For a Technological Civilization, We Must Have Metals

_{Michael Denton
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Technology

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It is very doubtful that any beings in the universe could develop a civilization remotely comparable with our own without the use of metals. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, cosmos, culture, Darwinism, education, evolution, family, human life, marriage, myths, nihilism, police, Portland, property, rioting, Seattle}

How Much of Today’s Anarchic Nihilism Can Be Laid at Darwin’s Feet?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

See how much malignancy has been justified and advocated by some very smart people in the name of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 28, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, August Weismann, bacterial infection, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, Costa Rica, fairy tales, fish, limpets, multicellular organisms, natural selection, rainforest, sea floor, snakes, Strickberger’s Evolution}

The Fairy Tale World of an Evolution Textbook

_{Robert Shedinger
July 28, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

7}

Endothermy may have advantages over ectothermy, but I wouldn’t advise taking your chances by picking up a poisonous snake. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, combustion, fire, Fire-Maker series, Goldilocks, gravitational field, gravity, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, nitrogen, oxygen, planetary design, respiration}

For Fire, Our Planet Is Just the Right Size

_{Michael Denton
July 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

3}

Self-evidently, the gravity on the surface of a planet limits the maximum size of large terrestrial organisms. Read More ›