Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, __edited, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwinism, En Arche Foundation, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, paleontology, Poland, waiting-time problem}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: What We Mean by the Missing Transitional Fossil Forms

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2019

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

Certainly, we find organisms that are “morphologically intermediate,” bearing resemblances to organisms that came before and others that came later. Read More ›

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Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, black holes, Natalie Wolchover, Nobel Prize, Paul Dirac, Quanta Magazine, quantum mechanics, Steven Weinberg, University of Amsterdam}

Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

_{Science & Culture
December 11, 2019

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, August Weismann, dialogue, economics, eugenics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, gender, humanities, natural selection, race, religion, San Diego, science, Science (journal), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sexuality, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theologians, theology}

On Doing Science Versus Understanding Science

_{Robert Shedinger
December 10, 2019

Evolution

6}

Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu wrote in 1947, “Race differences arise chiefly because of the differential action of natural selection on geographically separate populations.” Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, binding sites, BioEssays, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, multicellular organisms, non-coding DNA, PNAS, The Myth of Junk DNA, transcription factors, transposable elements}

Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

_{Science & Culture
December 10, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified. Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, biological origins, Darwinism, David Berlinski, entropy, Europe, evolution, Human Nature (book), ID the Future, Jews, patriotism, Peter Robinson, podcast, science, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theism, Uncommon Knowledge}

David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism

_{Science & Culture
December 9, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

1}

Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, cats, Dogs, environmental movement, feces, meat, New Scientist, pets}

Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2019

Bioethics

3}

Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”! Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, blue whale, Caltech, cytoplasm, DNA, Escherichia coli, evolution, heart rate, intelligent design, machinery, marine biologists, nanotechnology, NOAA, Stanford University}

Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest

_{Science & Culture
December 9, 2019

Intelligent Design

8}

What’s bigger than a blue whale? Smaller than a virus? At the extremes and everywhere in between, life shows ingenious design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, employment, First Amendment, freedom of religion, Islam, litigation, Roman Catholic}

Mission: To Eviscerate Freedom of Religion

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The only real difference between Robyn Pennacchia and me is that I believe in the entirety of the First Amendment and she does not. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, cooperation, David Berlinski, ID the Future, Nazis, Peter Robinson, podcast, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, theology}

Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

2}

The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, biomimicry, creationism, Darwinian materialism, dialogue, Georgia, intelligent design, materialism, pastors, priests, religion, Rice University, San Diego, science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Letter from San Diego: Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses?

_{Robert Shedinger
December 6, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read More ›