Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aeon, atheism, chairs, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, humans, Jerry Fodor, Monash University, philosophers, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 22, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Dennett’s approach to human consciousness has not only borne no fruit but it is hard to see how it ever could. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 22, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Astronomy
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Planetology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Adam, aliens, Apollo 11, Arthur C. Clarke, artifacts, brains, curiosity, Curiosity rover, dirt, Elon Musk, intelligent design, Intelligent Design in Action, Mars, Mars rovers, Saturn, SETI, solar system, Titan, wheels}

Intelligent Design in Action: Mars Archaeology

_{David Coppedge
January 22, 2025

Archaeology, Astronomy, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Planetology

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A new scientific research field began when intelligently designed artifacts started appearing on a lifeless planet. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell cycle, cell division, chromosomes, complexity, eukaryotic cell division, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, mitosis, motor proteins, spindle}

How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Could the components of the eukaryotic cell division process have arisen through a gradual, unguided process? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell cycle, cells, Charles Darwin, eukaryotes, eukaryotic cell cycle, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, kinetochores, Latin, microtubules, mitosis, modifications, On the Origin of Species, prokaryotes, unguided evolution}

Intelligent Design in the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 21, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An inspection of the components and processes in eukaryotic cell division demonstrates just one of many such systems that Invalidate Mr. Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, BIO-Complexity, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy, entropy, information, intellectual history, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Leonard Susskind, Peter Medawar, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search}

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, genes, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, mammals, paleontologists, placental mammals, podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion}

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, atheism, culture, dignity, human life, life, Nat Hentoff, oppression, The Guardian, tyranny}

This Close: Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. Sonia Sodha is on the way to an important understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Crossway, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, death, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, paleontologists, podcast, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Günter Bechly on Fossils and Common Descent

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We were shocked and grieved to learn of the death of our friend and colleague Günter Bechly last week. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Technology
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, Center for Science and Culture, Douglas Axe, natural selection, natural theology, San Diego, specified complexity, The Design Inference, universe, William A. Dembski}

Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

_{Stephen Dilley
January 16, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Technology

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Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›