Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, black holes, Charles Darwin, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, just-so stories, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast, principle of utility, Wesley Smith}

Wallace Broke with Darwin Over Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 20, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Alfred Russel Wallace reasoned his way to affirmation of an “Overruling Intelligence” — intelligent design by another name — at work in the long history of life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, atheism, barnacles, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, England, evolution, Gregor Mendel, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, Louis Pasteur, On the Origin of Species, Paul Ehrlich, pilgrimage, tautology, theocracy}

Darwinian Faith and Fetish

_{Michael Egnor
August 20, 2018

Biology, Evolution

4}

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, BioLogos, cancer, cells, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, genes, great apes, humans, intelligent design, Iron Age, iron ore, mutations, Pierre-Luc Germain, S. Joshua Swamidass, theology, tumor}

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
August 20, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, body, female, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, life, Love Thy Body, male, materialists, Nancy Pearcey, nature, podcast, sexuality}

Nancy Pearcey Urges Inconsistent Materialists: Love Thy Body

_{Science and Culture
August 19, 2018

Bioethics, Philosophy

1}

One inconsistency is their unlivable claim that “we have no free will.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Bloomberg, elderly, health care, health-care rationing, terminal illness}

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018

Medicine

3}

There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget. Read More ›

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Date
August 17, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, __k-review, body, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Nancy Pearcey, podcast, purpose, sexuality, Tod Butterfield}

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

_{Science and Culture
August 17, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics

1}

Who — or what — determines what we are? Why does it matter? And how should we act in light of the answers to those questions? Read More ›

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Date
August 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Biomimetics, coding, computer science, Darwinism, DNA, education, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, mutations, natural selection, Next Generation Science Standards, Northwestern University, protein synthesis, proteins, public education, schools, Science Advances, Science Education Policy, stem, synthetic biology, transcription, translation, Wyss Institute}

Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

_{Science and Culture
August 16, 2018

Biology, Engineering, Science Education

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An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, acorn worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, electrical current, evolution, Hong Kong, invertebrates, lancelets, mitochondrion, nervous system, neurons, Nobel Prize, phylum, Placozoa, plasticity, PLOS Biology, PNAS, sea urchins, starfish, synaptic transmission, tunicates, vertebrates}

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover?

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2018

Evolution

7}

Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
August 14, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 13, 2018

Categories
Botany
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Aquinas.design, Aristotelianism, body, compounds, computers, elements, Father Michael Chaberek, humans, intelligent design, man, oceans, soul, substance, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, thoughts}

New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
August 13, 2018

Botany, Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›