Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, 2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic engineers, Ignác Semmelweis, intelligent design, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, living cell, macroevolution, medicine, MERS-CoV, Michael Dini, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, On the Origin of Species, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, smallpox, species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses, World Health Organization, Wuhan}

Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

_{Jonathan Wells
March 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Geology
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ALH84001, ancient Earth, astrobiology, continents, crystals, fossils, Guillermo Gonzalez, Mars, Miller-Urey experiment, Moon, oceans, planetary habitability, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Washington}

What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 30, 2020

Astronomy, Geology, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, artists, Asa Gray, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creativity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Eric Metaxas, evolution, evolutionary theory, Hannah Arendt, Hoover Institution, intelligent design, Jonah Goldberg, Jordan Peterson, materialists, Michael Flannery, multiverse, Percy Shelley, Peter Robinson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, string theory, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, William Graham}

An Artist Examines Evolution

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 29, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We may dispute what Darwin felt or thought in the privacy of his study — but the bulk of his writings fall clearly into advocating for one perspective: naturalism. Read More ›

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Date
March 28, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, Discovery Institute, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, March for Science, plant rights, scientism, United States, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith on Rights Gone Wild

_{Science and Culture
March 28, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics

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Listen in as Smith discusses how science has been conflated with ethics and talks about animal and plant rights. Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ATP, central dogma, chromosomes, cohesin, Darwinian mechanism, DNA, E. coli, error catastrophe, genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Lego blocks, mRNA, Nature Communications, PNAS, polymerase, polypeptides, proteins, RNA, South Korea, University of Basel, University of Notre Dame, University of Seville, William Paley}

More Hints of Order in the Genome

_{Science and Culture
March 27, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ancient Earth, brian, Center for Science and Culture, complex systems, Discovery Institute Press, Duke University, emergence, entropy, equilibrium, intelligent agency, MIT, molecules, natural engines, second of law thermodynamics, The Mystery Life’s Origin}

Thermodynamic Challenges to the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
March 27, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Spontaneous natural processes always tend toward states of greater entropy, lower energy, or both. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, eugenics, Europe, evolution, extermination, humankind, humans, Michael Keas, purpose, race, Racism, Richard Owen, teleology, United States}

Charles Darwin vs. Richard Owen on Race

_{Science and Culture
March 26, 2020

Evolution

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Unlike Darwin, Owen believed that evolution was guided by teleology or purpose, and he saw humans as different from animals not only in degree but in kind. Read More ›

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, Internet, living cell, membranes, metabolic pathways, Miller-Urey experiment, molecular structure, molecules, Paris, perpetual motion machine, professors, researchers, scientists, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

_{James M. Tour
March 26, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers’ claims and the subsequent press. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bilaterian animals, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cnidarians, Deuterostomia, Ediacaran animals, Germany, Helminthoidichnites, microbial mats, Nephrozoa, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Protostomia, Scyphozoa, South Australia, UC Riverside, University of California, Yilingia spiciformis}

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020

Evolution

10}

Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, alien enlightenment, Andrew Cuomo, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Cosmos 3.0, COVID-19, demons, disease, Egypt, Evolution News, Fox Broadcasting Company, Galen, Hippocrates, hospitals, Judaism, leprosy, materialism, medicine, Mesopotamia, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York State, Old Testament, physicians, salvation, social distancing, Unbelievable}

Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

_{Mike Keas
March 25, 2020

Medicine

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In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›