Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Darwinists, DNA, En Arche Foundation, foresight, intelligent design, junk DNA, natural selection, overlapping genes, Poland, predictions, random mutation, Siegfried Scherer, Stephen Meyer, unguided evolution}

Meyer on “Nested Coding”: Another Successful Design Prediction

_{David Klinghoffer
January 7, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Overlapping genes, or “nested coding,” was anticipated by microbiologist Siegfried Scherer. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, First Amendment, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Free Science, free speech, objectivity, origins science, Student Academic Freedom in Science resolution, students, United States, universities, University of Chicago}

From FIRE, Good News on Campus Free Speech

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is out now with a new report. It’s their yearly analysis of speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, books, college, critical thinking, Denis Noble, education, engineers, Jay Labov, Khan Academy, Modern Synthesis, Nature (journal), physicians, Royal Society, scientists, Stanford University, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

Science Education and the Growth Mindset

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Psychology, Science Education

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Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, astrophysicist, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evidentialism, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, properly basic belief, quantum mechanics, reason, red shift, Stephen Jay Gould, theists, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
January 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›

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Date
January 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, aging, Andrew McDiarmid, Are We Here to Recreate Ourselves?, artifacts, childbirth, death, foresight, Geoffrey Simmons, human reproduction, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, intentionality, lungs, mind}

Patterns of Design in Human Life

_{Science and Culture
January 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Dr. Simmons sees clues of design in the processes of reproduction, in development, and in the many complex events in the lungs and vascular system that make childbirth possible. Read More ›

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Date
January 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, equilibrium, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, Leonardo da Vinci, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Tod Butterfield}

Forty Parameters of the Designed Body

_{Science and Culture
January 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Listen in as Steve Laufmann reflects on the body’s fight against equilibrium, the Goldilocks principle, and more! Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, aquaporins, archaea, archaellum, ATP, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, biologists, Design Inference, extraterrestrial intelligence, eyes, human body, industry, insects, intelligent design, kidneys, larvae, microbes, nanomachine, Nature Microbiology, New York Post, outboard motor, Penn State, proteins, river, stars, toilet, University of Cambridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

For Your Post-Holiday Enjoyment, Healthy ID Snacks

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Among other design inspirations, the “ultimate non-stick coating” developed at McMaster University is based on the lotus leaf. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Arizona State University, Biomimetics, centipedes, cilia, electricity, electron transport, genes, genomes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, materials science, metabolism, Michael Behe, miRNA, orb webs, photosynthesis, physiology, spiders, swimming, Tohoku University, University of North Carolina, University of Otago}

Care for Appetizers? Electric Proteins, Spidey Sense, and More

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2020

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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Welcome to the second day of the New Year! Like tasty sliders, these short news stories should get the juices flowing for big developments in 2020. Read More ›