Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
August 2, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, Jay Richards, podcast, pundits, Robert Crowther, science fiction, smart machines, The Human Advantage}

Jay Richards: Machines Aren’t Us, and They Aren’t Replacing Us

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

1}

Science fiction tantalizes — and pundits terrorize — with images of intelligent machines taking over for humans. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ethan Siegel, evolution, Forbes, general relativity, inheritance, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Newtonian mechanics, predictions, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution}

For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

_{David Klinghoffer
August 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
August 1, 2018

Evolution, History of Science

12}

As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 31, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bioRxiv, cephalopod, creativity, cuttlefish, Douglas Axe, limbs, tentacles, Undeniable (book)}

Doug Axe: In Cuttlefish, “Genetic Program for Limb Development Predates Limbs”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 31, 2018

Intelligent Design

1}

That’s the way it is, universally, with creative invention. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 31, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, BioLogos, chimpanzees, common descent, common design, Dennis Venema, genome, Hg38, Human, Kevin Williamson, media, National Review, Nature (journal), predictions, Richard Buggs, Scientific American, Stephen Schaffner, theistic evolution}

Geneticist: On Human-Chimp Genome Similarity, There Are “Predictions” Not “Established Fact”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 31, 2018

Evolution, Genetics

6}

Richard Buggs gives us a look inside the sausage factory where figures on the subject are calculated. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 31, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, cryo-electron microscopy, DNA repair, enzymes, evolution, genome, International School of Advanced Studies, molecular machines, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, nucleus, PNAS, Privileged Species, proteins, RNA, spliceosome, supercoiling, topoisomerase}

Inside the Machine Room of the Nucleus

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2018

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

7}

The nucleus is a beehive of activity, where information is not just stored but processed, protected, transcribed, and duplicated by highly complex machines. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, age, babies, Belgium, Canada, children, disability, euthanasia, infanticide, medical treatment, minors, Netherlands, pets, terminal illness}

Remember When Euthanasia Was About “Choice” for Adults?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

If killing is a “medical treatment,” how can it be denied to anyone based on age or competency? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Bruce Chapman, computers, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Life After Google, mathematical model, search engines, The Human Advantage, Wall Street Journal}

Gilder, Richards: Celebrating Two Important New Titles from Discovery Institute Authors!

_{David Klinghoffer
July 30, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

“Creativity is not going to be rendered obsolete, but AI is going to transform our economy profoundly. And the inflection point is now.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
July 30, 2018

Botany, Evolution

8}

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›