Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, Annual Review of Genetics, Cell (journal), CRISPR, DNA, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, functionality, gene duplication, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, terminology, Thomas Kuhn, transcription}

Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

_{Casey Luskin
January 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology

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As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Apollo 8, beauty, butterflies, Carl Sagan, color, crystals, earth, Earthrise, flowers, insects, Mars, Moon, natural selection, Neptune, peacock, rainbows, sexual selection, solar system, surprise, Uranus, Venus}

Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 7, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›

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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, 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

2}

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, Free Science, free speech, objectivity, origins science, students, United States, universities, University of Chicago}

From FIRE, Good News on Campus Free Speech

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

2}

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, 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

6}

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, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, quantum mechanics, reason, 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

7}

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, artifacts, childbirth, death, foresight, Geoffrey Simmons, human reproduction, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, intentionality, lungs, mind}

Patterns of Design in Human Life

_{Science & Culture
January 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

1}

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 & Culture
January 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

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, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cornell University, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

41}

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's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, E.O. Wilson, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

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

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

6}

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