Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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David Klinghoffer

Date
March 15, 2019

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, antifreeze protein, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian processes, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, molecular machines, PNAS, podcast, Ray Bohlin, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film)}

With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself

_{David Klinghoffer
March 15, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology. Read More ›

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Date
March 15, 2019

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Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, antifreeze, atheism, Brown University, Cornelius Hunter, DNA, evolution, genes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, just-so stories, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Michael Behe, Monty Python, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, proteins, RNA, serendipity, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a “Fishy Story”

_{Science and Culture
March 15, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Coyne is sure this is going to come as a rude shock, to our colleague and contributor Dr. Behe in particular, “a slap in the face of IDers like Michael Behe — a fish slap like the one below.” Read More ›

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Date
March 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, arthropods, biological information, body plans, brain, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, digestion, evolution, eyes, fossil record, intelligent design, legs, Mars, National Academy of Sciences, oxygen, PNAS, Precambrian, predation, seawater, sexual reproduction, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

New Paper Confirms the Trilobite Explosion

_{Science and Culture
March 15, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s important to note that the “true tempo of early animal evolution” exists in evolutionists’ imaginations, not in the rocks. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, economics, evolution, evolutionary biology, ID the Future, Michael Behe, podcast}

Behe Exposes Darwinism’s “Pretense of Knowledge”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 14, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolution’s deficits had been masked, he realized, by a combination of groupthink and the haziness of what biology could say about the molecular basis of life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, David Snoke, E. coli, Ebola, FedEx, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, HIV, malaria, Michael Lynch, Michigan State University, mutation rate, polar bears, population size, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Telliamed Revisited, tiktaalik, tinkering, turtles, viruses, waiting-time problem, Yersinia pestis}

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

_{Michael Behe
March 14, 2019

Evolution

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Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›

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Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
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, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, The Logic of Chance, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Cambrian Explosion, Chrismooreia michaelbehei, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinians, dragonfly, Early Jurassic, evolution, Evolution News, fossil record, gradualism, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, ideas, insects, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, paleontology, physical reality, podcast, wings}

Insect Evolution: Another Illustration of How Darwinism “Explains Away”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Günter Bechly notes three contradictions at odds with Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
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, __k-review, Ann Gauger, colleges, Douglas Axe, education, free speech, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars}

Deadline for Summer Seminars Is Almost Here — April 2 — An Amazing and FREE Opportunity

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Strike back at speech suppression. This is the science your professors would fear to teach about objectively. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, agency, artificial satellites, asteroids, chance, Claude Shannon, earth, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionists, extraterrestrials, Illustra Media, James Clerk Maxwell, materialists, Maxwell’s demon, meteorites, Nature (journal), Paul Davies, photosynthesis, proteins, Richard Dawkins, The Demon in the Machine, Turing Machine}

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2019

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, apes, Aristotle, Christianity, communication, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, dog, Homo sapiens, human mind, humans, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, physiology, signs, soul, speech}

Why Animals Don’t Speak

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›