Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, African Savannah, American Scientist, Aristotle, fire, Fire-Maker series, hands, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, Richard Wagner, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel}

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, anthropology, culture, Darwinism, evolutionists, humans, intimacy, materialistic science, police, Portland, protests, sex, speech}

Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, evolution, females, humans, males, mammals, natural selection, sex}

Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

3}

We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, kilns, metallurgy, metals, Stone Age}

How Man Became the Fire-Maker

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

3}

Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, birds, blood, bones, brain, cartilage, chicken-and-egg problem, chromosomes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, evolution of the sexes, female, fertilization, fingers, fish, hormones, inbreeding, joints, ligaments, male, muscles, natural selection, nerves, ovum, primates, procreation, Science (journal), Science Advances, sperm, swimming, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 5, 2020

Evolution

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It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
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, academic freedom, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Constitution, Darwinists, dissidents, diversity, employment, Evolution News, free speech, Marxists}

When They Come for You — Some Helpful Tips

_{Michael Egnor
August 5, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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This strategy could be effective in dealing with the Darwinian totalitarians. Woke thugs, like Darwinist thugs, abhor having to explain themselves. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Bioscience, critics, Darwinists, disease, evolution, fossil record, Jackson Wheat, Jerry Coyne, Long Story Short, Neo-Darwinism, population genetics, scientists, The Conversation, whales, Wikipedia, YouTube videos}

Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2020

Biology, Evolution

3}

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, cells, cellulose, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, Goldilocks, humans, leaves, lignin, metallurgy, parsimony, photosynthesis, surface tension, water, wood}

Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony

_{Michael Denton
August 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, Andrew McDiarmid, cosmic fine-tuning, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, materialism, Robert Alston, universe}

Fine-Tuning in a Nutshell: No Problem

_{Science & Culture
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Though cosmic fine-tuning is often referred to as “the fine-tuning problem,” Robert Alston says it’s really no problem at all. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dan Graur, DNA, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, evolution, Evolution News, genomics, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, MIT, National Institutes of Health, Nature (journal), RNA}

Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”

_{Science & Culture
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming. Read More ›