Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", compound eye, computers, convergent evolution, cornea, evolution, eye, functional specification, Golgi apparatus, Human, intelligent design, iris, lens, mitochondria, nucleus, optic nerve, programming, retina, Ribosome, visual cortex}

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Aristotle, Christians, evolutionary theory, Galen, Harvard University, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, macroevolution, microevolution, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Philip Skell, pilgrimage, Poland, Shrewsbury, tautology, taxonomy, The Descent of Man, thomas}

A Darwinian Pilgrimage

_{Michael Egnor
August 10, 2018

Biology, Evolution

5}

Darwin still has some cachet among design advocates. In this I differ from some of my friends and colleagues. Read More ›

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Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew Knoll, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, fossils, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, morphology, Nature (journal), Peter Ward, Precambrian, Science (journal), Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Vanderbilt University}

Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science and Culture
August 10, 2018

Intelligent Design

4}

For the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna may have survived into the Cambrian period. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, antibiotic resistance, atheism, BIO-Complexity, bioengineering, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Günter Bechly, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, pesticides, Philip Skell, Richard Lewontin, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola

_{Jonathan Witt
August 9, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

The father had sent his son a copy of our book, urging him to read it so the two could discuss the evidence and arguments there. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, American Scientific Affiliation, BioLogos, Chicago, Evangelical Christians, faith, Genesis, Hebrew, human origins, monogenism, Roman Catholic, S. Joshua Swamidass, Templeton Foundation, theology}

Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins

_{Ann Gauger
August 9, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, climate change, cosmos, evolution, history, ID the Future, ideology, intelligent design, life, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast, science, science denial, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Alabama Press, X Club}

New Book Offers History as an Antidote to the Paralyzing “Science-Denier” Label

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Whether the subject is evolution or climate change, the purpose of accusing someone of “science-denial” is to keep that person in line. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, butterflies, dinosaurs, Doctor's Diary (series), Dogs, dolphins, evolution, fireflies, fossils, giraffes, Greeks, horse, intelligent design, mammals, Modernizing Darwin (series), natural selection, octopuses, On the Origin of Species, Romans, skunks, viruses, whales, woodpeckers}

Doctor’s Diary: Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Australia, authoritarianism, Canada, conscientious objection, doctors, health care, Hippocratic Oath, human rights, medical conscience, medicine, nurses, Ontario, pharmacists, progressive, suicide}

The Drive to Obliterate “Medical Conscience”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

An international effort seeks to transform abortion into a positive right, which would require the state to guarantee access. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, christian, conservative, Darwin Day in America, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute Press, history, intelligent design, John Magens Mello, John West, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, socialist, teleology, The World of Life, Traipsing Into Evolution, University of Alabama, William Dembksi}

Discovering Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
August 8, 2018

Intelligent Design

4}

For those who wish to caricature the theory of intelligent design, Wallace becomes a very inconvenient historical figure. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Baptists, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, finch beaks, Georgia, Glenn Branch, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), National Museum of Natural History, Next Generation Science Standards, public education, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins Foundation, science, Scientific American, teachers, theology, vestigial structures}

Using Religion to Push Evolution in Public School Biology Class — What Could Go Wrong?

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 7, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

11}

A much better approach would be no religion in biology class, and more science. Read More ›