Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

1}

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

3}

Is there evidence for intelligent human agency in COVID-19, given its structure and what is known about its emergence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, blood, charcoal, circulatory system, Energy, Fire-Maker series, heart, human body, intelligent design, kilns, medical school, metabolic energy, metallurgy, molecular motor, muscles, myosin, oxygen, respiration, respiratory system, strength, wood}

What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?

_{Michael Denton
August 12, 2020

Intelligent Design

6}

As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), American Chemical Society, axon, Cambrian animals, China, Darwin's Dilemma, evolution, Foresight (book), Journal of Experimental Psychology, Marcos Eberlin, memory, mother-of-pearl, nacre, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Netherlands, Peking University, PNAS, Rube Goldberg device, Science Advances, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, water lilies}

In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology

_{Science and Culture
August 11, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Design with interdependent layers presents a challenge to neo-Darwinism. Natural selection is oblivious to anything but an immediate beneficial variation. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, community, elegance, Emily Kurlinski, friendship, ID the Future, inteligent design, interview, natural world, order, podcast, pseudonym, Research, Seattle, students, Summer Seminars}

Intelligent Design and the “Transformative” Summer Seminar: A Student Reflects

_{Science and Culture
August 11, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

1}

What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Actin, conformational changes, filaments, Fire-Maker series, intelligent design, molecular motors, muscle cell, muscle contraction, muscles, Nature’s Destiny, power stroke, protein molecules}

Appreciating the Design of Human Muscles

_{Michael Denton
August 11, 2020

Intelligent Design

5}

It is likely that no further improvement in muscle power can be achieved by increasing the density of packing of the myosin motors. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atomization, Chicago, civilization, Cliff Mass, Communism, Darwinian evolution, Dawinism, democracy, Edward Feser, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Kristallnacht, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, terror, tyranny}

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2020

Evolution

5}

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, athletes, fire, Fire-Maker series, gravity, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Mass, muscles, Steven Vogel, terrestrial organisms, vertebrates}

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

_{Michael Denton
August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

3}

How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›

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Date
August 9, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, co-option, cryo-electron microscopy, embryo, evolution, gears, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, podcast, random mutation, theistic evolution}

Listen: Michael Behe Answers Your Questions About Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
August 9, 2020

Intelligent Design

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What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 8, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, convergence, convergent evolution, Darwinism, engineer, Ernst Mayr, flowering plants, François Jacob, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, St. George Jackson Mivart, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tinkerer}

Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020

Biology, Evolution

6}

Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›