Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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
Tagged
, __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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, biogeography, biologists, circular reasoning, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Discovery Institute, DNA, embryology, evolution, evolutionists, free speech, high school, homology, Jerry Coyne, Long Story Short, Pearson Education, Stephen Meyer, strengths and weaknesses, textbook, vestigial structures, video, Why Evolution Is True, Yale University}

In Just Eight Minutes, New Video Punctures Evolution’s Circular “Homology” Argument

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Scientific Freedom

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The video was developed in an ingenious way by its creator, writer, and animator. And who is that? I can’t share that information with you. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anti-science, Darwinism, DNA repair, epigenetics, evolutionary time, fish, foresight, health, human genome, intelligent design, mechanism, medical research, New York University, PNAS, salmon, strengths and weaknesses, students, system}

DNA Repair, Fish Shape, Epigenetics: Science Advances, Darwin-Free

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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According to a robotically repeated talking point favored by evolution proponents, loyal adherence to Darwin’s theory is crucial to the future of biological research. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, animals, California, cats, doctor, Dogs, euthanasia, governor, health care, lethal prescription, patients, UC Davis}

Save Animals, Not Sick People, from Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 14, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Misplaced priorities are California’s specialty. Here’s an example. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Are We Here to Recreate Ourselves?, complexity, consciousness, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, podcast, robots, thinking, unguided evolution}

Can Evolution Create Mind? Can We?

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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The arrival of humans on the scene of life is impossible to explain through unguided evolution alone, says Dr. Geoffrey Simmons. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
January 14, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Daniel Reeves, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, fitness, high school, John West, Michael Behe, middle school, molecular machines, nanotechnology, purpose, Roger Olsen, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Borg, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Undeniable (book), Walter Bradley, Westminster Conference}

Dallas Conference Youth Track — Intelligent Design for Kids

_{David Klinghoffer
January 13, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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The audience will learn, in a fun, humorous, interactive, and age-appropriate way, what intelligent design encompasses and what it doesn’t. Read More ›