Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, Bari Weiss, censorship, Darwinism, discrimination, dissent, Douglas Axe, Eric Hedin, Free Science, free speech, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, journalists, Michael Egnor, New York Times, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Scott Minnich, self-censorship, Smithsonian Institution}

Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Boston, debate, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, Jonathan M., Newcastle University, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, readers, Sattler College}

Welcome Back, Jonathan McLatchie, and Congratulations!

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2020

Evolution

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As of January 2020, Jonathan M. is now Dr. Jonathan McLatchie. He earned a PhD in evolutionary biology from the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Epistemology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Big Bang, biological design, cosmic fine-tuning, evidence, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, likelihood, Luke Barnes, Lydia McGrew, ministers, Philosophia Christi, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Bayes, Timothy McGrew, William A. Dembski, William Lane Craig}

A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 14, 2020

Epistemology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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I have come to think of evidence in Bayesian terms and this has in turn impacted the way I think about the biological arguments for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial life, Charles Darwin, computer science, Darwinian algorithm, evolution, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Gregory Chaitin, sex}

What Can and Can’t Darwin’s Algorithm Compute?

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 14, 2020

Evolution

4}

A number of seminal papers have been published attempting to formalize Darwin’s biological theory from the point of view of computational sciences. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Barry Gale, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, John Gould, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Angus Menuge, C.S. Lewis, Discovery Institute, dysteleology, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, natural law, Oxford University, problem of pain, Victor Reppert}

Why C. S. Lewis Rejected the “Argument from Undesign”

_{Science and Culture
July 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

One contribution Lewis made to the intelligent design project wasn’t a specific argument but the example he set. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, automobiles, cars, devolution, evolution, Fabian Fuentes, fossil record, Houston Baptist University, humans, intelligent design, software, Spanish, subtitles, Why Evolution Is Different}

On the Evolution of Automobiles

_{Granville Sewell
July 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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In automobile evolution, for example (or in the evolution of software), as in the history of life, we see major new features appear suddenly. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Black Lives Matter, corruption, COVID-19, decency, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, Eric Metaxas, free speech, goodness, honesty, honor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Egnor, Racism, scientists, sexism, skunks, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, Wall Street Journal}

Awesome Recovery for Atheist Lawrence Krauss

_{David Klinghoffer
July 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

5}

Krauss of all people is now lecturing us about the importance of…decency, goodness, honesty, honor, and purity. Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Miller, critics, Eric Anderson, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, information, intelligence, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Michael Keas, natural phenomena, Nature, podcast, Saturn}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information In and Information About

_{Science and Culture
July 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

1}

Is there information actually in Saturn’s rings, or is that information produced by intelligent agents studying Saturn’s rings? Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apoptosis, caspases, cell death, corpses, death, disease, epidermis, fingernails, foresight, homeostasis, intelligent design, lysosomes, macrophages, molecular machines, phagocytosis, proteasomes, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital}

In Cell Death, a Stunning Display of Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

9}

Even tissues have to deal with the dead, and like everything else they do, they excel at it. The number of players involved in cell death is truly astonishing. Read More ›