Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, computer software, Endangered Species Act, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, Jeff Sebo, life, mammals, microbes, moral agents, moral patients, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, The Moral Circle, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectome, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, feeding, information, intelligent design, interneurons, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, mating, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuropeptide, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, sensory neurons, serotonin, synapses}

“Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

_{Eric Cassell
March 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

9}

Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, arXiv, astrobiology, bioconstruction, bioerosion, biosphere, bioturbation, earth, elephants, Eörs Szathmáry, floods, habitability, ice, inhabitation, intelligent design, Jorge I. Zuluaga, livestock, Mars, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Marshall, Montana State University, natural selection, New Scientist, PNAS, sauropods, The Planetary Society, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, vitalism, W. Ford Doolittle, water}

Life as a Habitability Requirement

_{David Coppedge
March 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability? Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, human suffering, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, Society for Neuroscience, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cells, Center for Science and Culture, communication, critics, Discovery Institute, epigenetics, evolution, Galileo Galilei, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, life, Mount Everest, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Tom Woodward}

Intelligent Design’s “Galileo Figure”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Tom Woodward calls Jonathan Wells a “Galileo figure” in intelligent design’s connection with epigenetics. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), federal employees, Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

5}

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

14}

You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dariusz Sagan, En Arche Foundation, evolution, Evolution News, Geoffrey Simmons, Grzegorz Malec, Grzegorz Słowik, intelligent design, International Seminar on Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Mind & Cosmos, Muslims, Polish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, The Design Inference, Thomas Nagel, translation, United States, University of Zielona Góra, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, YouTubers}

Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish: “A Game Changer”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Among our partners around the world, one of the finest, doing some of the most impressive work, is the En Arche Foundation in Poland. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Strikes Back, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Doubts About Darwin, Eugenie Scott, evolution, history, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, misinformation, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), podcast, textbooks, Tom Woodward}

Woodward: The Impact of Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Tom Woodward has been ubiquitous in the unfolding culture war over intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academia, Casey Luskin, deadline, DNA, education, evolution, Garden of the Gods, geologists, graduate students, intelligent design, National Natural Landmark, protein evolution, researchers, rock formations, scholars, sciences, scientocracy, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teaching, truth, undergraduates, universal common descent, worldview, writing}

The CSC Summer Seminars: Once in a Lifetime, All Expenses Paid

_{Kate Kavanaugh
March 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

3}

Listening to scholars from various disciplines, and surrounded by the breathtaking scenery, I was awestruck by the truth and beauty of intelligent design. Read More ›