Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, colonialism, conservation, duties, environmentalism, indigenous people, mountains, nature rights, New Zealand, powers, public policy, responsibilities, rights, Santa Monica, Yellowstone}

This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, arrival of the fittest, causation, causes, Daniel Witt, Darwin's Black Box, David Gelernter, DNA, Energy, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Life Itself, logic, mastodons, matter, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, natural law, observation, oxidation, purpose, reduction, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, subatomic particles, supernovae, T. rex, telos, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

The Metaphysics of Irreducible Complexity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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The vastness of life’s complexity is no longer unfathomable when seen through the light of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biodiversity, Casey Luskin, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, DNA, earth, evolution, genetic information, ID the Future, innovation, intelligent design, life, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, proteins, random, selection, Stephen Meyer}

Why Evolution’s Selection/Mutation Mechanism Fails

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Do random mutational processes have the power to generate new base or amino acid sequences for natural selection to act upon within the time available? Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, CIA, COVID-19, government, health, HIV, lab leak, Maryland, medicine, mRNA vaccines, public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, safety, Vaccines, virologists}

Former CDC Director: What Worked, What Didn’t, with Covid

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Wesley J. Smith interviewed Robert R. Redfield on the public health disasters brought on by Covid and the reasons for the loss of trust in public health. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, adaptations, Armin Moczek, automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, cars, convergence, creator, dependency graph, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, genes, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, improvements, Indiana University, intelligent design, life, magic wand, New York Times, PDE2D, planning, software, testing, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, theology, unintelligent process, Why Evolution Is Different, Winston Ewert}

Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

_{Granville Sewell
January 29, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics, Technology

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If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, choice, consciousness, creativity, death, Denyse O'Leary, Emily Reeves, engineers, functional complexity, harmony, human being, immaterial genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life after death, living things, meaning, Mind Matters, nature, near-death experiences, Philip Ball, physicists, proportion, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer}

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

_{Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, birds, Boeing 747, Current Biology, fossils, gigantism, Günter Bechly, magic, mutations, Neil Thomas, Origin, paleontologists, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, selection, The Conversation, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Portsmouth}

Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, design logic, eukaryotic cell division, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Latin, modifications, self-replication}

Why Cell Division Challenges Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The eukaryotic cell cycle is just one of the many biological systems and processes that could not have arisen by numerous, successive, slight modifications. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, David Chalmers, Delusion, George Musser, hard problem of consciousness, human consciousness, Nautilus, neuroscientists, psychiatric disorders, psychologists}

Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›