Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 16, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Abraham Loeb, atmosphere, BIO-Complexity, distance, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrogen, interstellar dust, Milky Way, Neptune, oxygen, rockets, satellite TV, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet, Uranus}

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 16, 2020

Physical Sciences

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I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, anxiety, bullies, Cambridge University, censors, complex life, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwin's Doubt, death, Great American Novel, intelligent design, Leviticus, materialism, musical instruments, Passover, quarantine, quizzes, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Return of the God Hypothesis, Russian, scientific evidence, shutdown, Signature in the Cell, stars, Stephen Meyer, stimulation, video course, Wall Street Journal}

New Video Course with Stephen Meyer on Design Science Offers Hope and Stimulation

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2020

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Many have asked what or whom proponents of intelligent design nominate as the source of the purpose and design that courses through life and the weave of the whole cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, birds, critics, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian evolution, dog breeds, Dogs, eukaryotes, exaggeration, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness, genetic information, humans, humor, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, mutations, polar bears, prokaryotes, religion, Richard Lenski, science, wolves}

Judge Michael Behe’s Case for Intelligent Design Yourself

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Darwin’s mechanism is dominated by ‘Poison-Pill’ mutations: positively-selected, loss-of-function mutation.” It “squanders genetic information for short-term gain.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
April 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, __k-review, abscess, antibodies, bacteria, cancer, coronavirus, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), fungus, H1N1, health, Immune System, immunization, intelligent design, lungs, lymphocytes, macrophages, measles, mumps, natural selection, neutrophils, pandemic, paralysis, polio, RNA, Swine Flu, tetanus, vaccination, viruses}

Doctor’s Diary: Our Remarkable Healing Processes and the Coronavirus Infection

_{Geoffrey Simmons
April 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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There are several ways to fight this pandemic besides social isolation, wearing masks, and proper hand-washing. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 14, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Rare Earth
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, __k-review, American Scientist, astrobiology, Charles Lineweaver, Christopher McKay, Discovery Institute, earth, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, galactic habitable zone, Hugh Ross, Icarus, intelligent design, interplanetary dust particles, James Kasting, Jay Richards, meteorites, Milky Way, Physics Today, Science (journal), SETI, solar system, The Privileged Planet, University of Washington}

Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 14, 2020

Astronomy, Planetology, Rare Earth

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In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›

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Date
April 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, medicine, On the Origin of Species, podcast, SARS-CoV-2, species, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series)}

Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Coronavirus: Biologist Jonathan Wells Explains

_{Science and Culture
April 14, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Does modern evolutionary theory guide medicine’s response to COVID-19? Not when you consider that most of the major treatments being used and pursued actually preceded Darwin. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, bears, Binghamton University, biologists, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Florida International University, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, On the Origin of Species, Richard Sternberg, scientists, U.C. Berkeley, webinar, whales, Yale University, Zoom}

Zoom Webinar with Wells, Sternberg on Whale Evolution; Join Us on April 23!

_{Science and Culture
April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin wrote: “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits…” Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, appendix, Charles Darwin, coccyx, Darwin-skeptics, diarrhea, disabilities, evolution, Foresight (book), Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, Immune System, infection, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Jonathan Wells, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Egnor, Nature Reviews Genetics, pseudogenes, Seth W. Cheetham, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Myth of Junk DNA, tonsils, vestigial structures, Wikipedia, wisdom teeth, Zombie Science (book)}

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

_{Science and Culture
April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›

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Date
April 12, 2020

Categories
Medicine
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, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day in America, eugenics, George Draper, International Medical Congress, John West, Jonathan Wells, Joshua Lederberg, Karl Pearson, Louis Pasteur, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, microbes, Nazism, Pasteurization, Pierre-Olivier Méthot, public health, René Dubos, Samuel Alizon, The Edge of Evolution, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), Zombie Science (book)}

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

_{Science and Culture
April 12, 2020

Medicine

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An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, biological information, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, Heritage Foundation, March for Science, Neo-Darwinism, science, scientism, Stephen Meyer, United States}

Listen: Stephen Meyer on How Evolution Degrades Information

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2020

Evolution

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Dr. Meyer spoke at a 2017 event, “March for Science or March for Scientism? Understanding the Real Threats to Science in America.” Read More ›