Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATP hydrolysis, cell death, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromatin, chromosome condensation, chromosomes, clawed frog, condensins, cytokinesis, DNA, Inner Centromere Protein, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinase, mice, mislocalization, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic chromosome, mitotic progression, phosphorylation, proteins, RNA interference, Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes, teleology, topoisomerase, topoisomerase IIα, Xenopus}

Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Benefits, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Frances Lee, harms, Italy, laptop class, lockdowns, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, Sara Talpos, Stephen Macedo, tunnel vision, World Health Organization}

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

_{Science and Culture
March 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 18, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 18, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

The setting, once again in Colorado, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology textbooks, Center for Science and Culture, citations, classrooms, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, finches, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, peppered moths, podcast, remembrances, reputation}

Dismantling the Icons of Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I invited Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Read More ›

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Author
Gregory Rummo

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Book of Job, Chemical and Engineering News, chemistry, codons, Douglas Axe, Gene Machine, Johannes Kepler, John Patrick, Joseph Hooker, Judeo-Christian tradition, malnutrition, mediator complex, mRNA, neckties, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, oracle soup, pasta, primordial soup, protein synthesis, proteins, reagents, RNA polymerase, Stephen Meyer, structural biology, tRNA, Venki Ramakrishnan}

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

_{Gregory Rummo
March 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academic freedom, American Founders, closed system, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, inalienable rights, individual rights, intelligent design, liberty, living systems, materialistic processes, rights, secularism, separation of church and state, tolerance, universe, university, worldview}

Not Just a Scientific Theory, Intelligent Design Is a Pillar of Academic Freedom

_{Eric Hedin
March 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

The American Founders established government with religious liberty by separating the State and the Church without separating reason from revelation. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, fine-tuning, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, local fine-tuning, Marcos Eberlin, planets, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism, universal fine-tuning}

The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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 ›