Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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
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, __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

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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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, David Attenborough, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolutionists, John West, morality, natural selection, plague, Sir David Attenborough, spirituality}

Are Humans “A Plague on the Earth”?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Back in January in Dallas, Discovery Institute organized its major conference on science and faith, before a huge and appreciative audience. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute Press, hypotheses, Melvin Calvin, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, positivism, science, scientists, special creation, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, tolerance}

Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress

_{Walter Bradley, Charles Thaxton, and Roger E. Olsen
March 25, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›

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Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Charles Thaxton, creativity, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, epilogue, ID the Future, intelligence, James Tour, Of Pandas and People, origins, Robert J. Marks II, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Charles Thaxton on a “Controversial” Epilogue

_{Science and Culture
March 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The three authors reviewed five proposed explanations for life’s origins and suggested that the best explanation was that the first life originated through an act of creative intelligence. Read More ›

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Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Carl Sagan, Cosmos 3.0, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, DNA, equations, Evolution News, habitability, Harold Urey, hydrogen, Mars, Mercury, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, red dwarf star, RNA, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago, Venus}

Cosmos Episode 6 — That’s Entertainment! (But Is It Science?)

_{Science and Culture
March 24, 2020

Physical Sciences

5}

Here is the problem with speculative thinking about extraterrestrial life as well as about the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, prebiotic evolution, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

_{Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›