Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Center for Science and Culture, Dallas, Daniel Reeves, Early Church, East Coast, evolution, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, Philadelphia, Stephen Meyer, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, April 3-4 in Philadelphia: Design and the Designer

_{David Klinghoffer
January 20, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science

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The culture bombards us with materialism. That’s the case even as, at deeper and deeper levels, science reveals evidence of a plan, foresight, a deliberately shaping force working upon nature. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Darwinians, de novo genes, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, E. coli, encryption, George Wald, imagination, natural selection, Nature (journal), non-coding DNA, open reading frames, plasticity, proteins, proto-genes, University of Oslo}

Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __edited, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, eugenics, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, segregationists, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 19, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, brain, chemicals, consciousness, David Berlinski, dualism, electrical signals, faith, Islam, life after death, London, materialism, meat, psychiatry, Rational Religion, Roman Catholic, soul, spirit, Umar Nasser}

Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, scholars, scientists, Walter Bradley Center}

ID Inquiry: Robert J. Marks on Information and Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
January 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Hear an installment in our ID Inquiry series, in which ID scientists and scholars answer your questions about intelligent design and evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, apology, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity Today, Darrel Falk, Darwin's Doubt, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, enzyme, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Evolution News, human origins, humans, intelligent design, mutations, nylonase, Retraction Crisis, S. Joshua Swamidass, science, Scripture, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, truth-seeking, vitellogenin}

BioLogos and the Search for Truth

_{David Klinghoffer
January 17, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Exactly how have the viewpoints at BioLogos been amended? Like a summer’s day in Seattle, it’s a bit cloudy — at least on the most interesting points. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, bilaterian animals, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Chengjiang biota, China, Cloudina, cloudinids, cloudinomorphs, cnidarian, Conotubus, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, digestive tract, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Germany, GUT, James D. Schiffbauer, Nature Communications, Nevada, polyp, Saarina, skeleton, University of Missouri, Wood Canyon Formation}

Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

_{Günter Bechly
January 17, 2020

Evolution

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I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __edited, abortion, embryos, fertility, gestational carriers, Mexico, npr, petri dish, pregnancy, quality control, Stanford University, United States, William Hurlbut}

Big Fertility Is Fast Becoming a Moral Hazard

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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This “experiment” was very wrong on at least four fronts. First, it created human life for the purpose of experimenting upon it. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, __edited, Africa, Biomimetics, earth, explanatory filter, Gabon, geologists, geysers, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, Oklo, Old Faithful, oxygen, physicists, solar system, specified complexity, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski}

Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 16, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa. Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, "survival of the fittest", Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, Darwin Centennial, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, ID the Future, Michael Flannery, On the Origin of Species, podcast, scholarship, science}

Flannery: A Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Pioneering Darwin Critic

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2020

Evolution

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Gutsy, bold, and precise in her scholarship, she saw Darwin’s theory as offering convenient “scientific” support for class-divided, untrammeled survival-of-the-fittest industrial competition. Read More ›