Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, anatomy, beak, biologists, biology, birds, communication, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, engineering, evolution, evolutionists, feet, food, injury, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, pecking, Ray Bohlin, skull, tail, tongue, woodpecker, woods}

Woodpecker Is a Stunning Example of Irreducible Complexity

_{David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A partially functional woodpecker evolving to be a functional woodpecker would be evolutionary dead-end. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, Carrollgate, efficacy, Eric Weinstein, ethics, geometric unity, government, groupthink, Johns Hopkins University, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, predictions, productivity, quantum gravity, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, theoretical physicists, trust}

Exposed: The Flakiness and Groupthink that Plague Physics

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 26, 2025

Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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This episode is worth keeping in mind when we hear pundits complain that the public doesn’t trust science or that government doesn’t support it enough. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Allan CP, artificial inteligence, chess, cockroach, computer science, computers, Google, human intelligence, hype, intelligence, Jay Richards, Moravec's paradox, robots, search engine, technology, The Science Dilemma, three-dimensional space}

Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Tagged
, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, blueprint, Book of Mormon, canon, Christianity, civilization, culture, DNA, extraterrestrials, genetic information, genome, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Holy Bible, human being, Human Genome Project, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Islam, Israelites, Judaism, Martin Luther, medicine, National Institutes of Health, New Testament, Old Testament, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Protestantism, punctuation, Quran, religion, Richard Sternberg, Roman Catholic Church, Scripture, species, vowels}

The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics

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Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After (book), belief, Bruce Greyson, Buddhism, Christianity, Denyse O'Leary, divine truth, folk belief, guardian angel, Jacob Vazquez, medical science, near-death experiences, occult belief, The Immortal Mind, theology, Truthful Hope}

Near-Death Experiences Fail to Confirm Any Single Belief System

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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People of different faiths tend to have experiences consistent with their culture. What does that say about the reality of the experiences? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, Chinese Revolution, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Devil, French intellectuals, ID the Future, Marcel Schützenberger, mathematics, Paris, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 23, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics

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David Berlinski reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, biology, Canada, colonization, Darwinism, decolonization, evolution, evolutionary biologists, group supremacy, human biology, is one forlorn casualty of late-stage materialism., Jerry Coyne, Laura Helmuth, materialism, Nature (journal), private truth, public truth, residential schools, Scientific American, sex binary, Why Evolution Is True}

Missing the Irony, an Evolutionist Decries Private Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Ironically, the ultimate origin of private truth is the materialism that you yourself, Dr. Coyne, espouse. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bobby pins, cell cycle, chromosome, cohesins, condensins, cords, DNA, DNA organization, extrusion, hair, interphase, kite string, loops, mechanisms, mirror, mitosis, motors, pins, strands, tennis ball, updo, yarn}

Cohesins and Condensins: Next-Generation Bobby Pins

_{Emily Reeves
August 22, 2025

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Picture this: you grab a box of bobby pins, clip them to the ends of your hair, and sit in front of a mirror. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, anatomy, auditory nerve, biochemistry, cochlea, communication, comprehension, ear, eardrum, Eric Hedin, expression, functionality, hair cells, hearing, human uniqueness, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, lips, mouth, neurology, ossicles, pharynx, reception, speech, tongue, vocal cords}

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 21, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Read More ›