Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, components, Darwin's Black Box, Dionaea, Genlisea, Heinz-Albert Becker, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia}

Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

_{Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020

Botany, Life Sciences

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Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Alan Turing, Alfred Russel Wallace, artificial intelligence, Charles Darwin, Chinese Room, Christians, computational biology, evolution, intelligent design, John Searle, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, natural selection, S. Joshua Swamidass, Texas A&M, University of Washington, Veritas Forum, Washington University}

Josh Swamidass on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Washington

_{David Klinghoffer
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

2}

I have to admit the event was kind of dull compared with the Behe debate. But Josh gave a nice presentation with AI/consciousness basics. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anemia, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?, blood pressure, brain, breathing, carbon dioxide, Center for Science and Culture, circulation, death, dehydration, Discovery Institute, DNA, doctor, Doctor's Diary (series), dying, exercise, fluids, foresight, health, heartbeat, infection, intelligent design, kidneys, liver, oxygen, purpose, red blood cells, redundancy, running, sleeping, stomach}

Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

The 4-4-4 rule says that we would perish without oxygen for four minutes, water for four days, or food for four weeks. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Arizona State University, Douglas Axe, dreaming, evolutionary theory, Michael Lynch, natural selection}

Evolution “Dreaming” — Tough Language from Biologist Michael Lynch

_{David Klinghoffer
February 27, 2020

Evolution

2}

Professor Lynch thinks fellow evolutionary biologists are “dreaming” and he does not mean that as a compliment. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, dinitrogen, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, micronutrients, nitrogen fixation, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthetic bacteria, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, adaptation, anti-fragility, causal circularity, CELS 2020, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, failure prevention, intelligent design, living systems, math, medicine, resilience}

Engineering Meets Biology: CELS 2020 Early Registration Discount Expires This Sunday

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2020

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physics

2}

You’ll hear about the latest research, explore new ideas, develope new skills, and collaborate to propose new research projects. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, eugenics, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fundacja En Arche, Grzegorz Malec, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, marriage, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, morals, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Polish, relationships, restaurants, Signature in the Cell, slavery, Stephen Meyer, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, World War II}

Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 26, 2020

Biology, Evolution

5}

I told the staff of En Arche that the foundation reminded me of Discovery Institute twenty years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, argument from incredulity, bees, biological information, bugs, butterflies, Charles Darwin, China, cockroaches, Darwinists, design intuition, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, fleas, flies, football field, gears, genes, humans, insects, intelligent design, logical fallacy, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, nature, planthopper, Secrets of the Cell, spiders, video series}

In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 26, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, bacterial flagellum, bacteriophages, building blocks, chimpanzees, Darwin Devolves, debate, DNA, drive shaft, evolution, gears, Human, intelligent design, James Tour, material mechanisms, methodological naturalism, molecular biology, motor, Mount Everest, Mount Rushmore, Neo-Darwinism, planthopper, propeller, Ratio Christi, Rice University, Richard Buggs, stator, Texas A&M, The War of the Worlds, Veritas Forum}

Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M

_{Jonathan Witt
February 26, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

11}

When Michael Behe’s slide show flashed to a close up of the gears, a murmur of astonishment rolled through the audience. Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, career, godfather, ID the Future, intelligent design, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, scientific materialism, U.C. Berkeley}

Ann Gauger Honors Intelligent Design’s “Godfather”

_{Science and Culture
February 25, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Dr. Gauger tells how Phillip Johnson emboldened her to give free rein to a healthy scientific skepticism. Read More ›