Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, DNA, Doug Monroe, evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, multiverse, podcast, Praxis Circle, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Theory of Everything, universe}

Meyer: Can There Be a Theory of Everything?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses two of the crucial arguments of his latest book. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Alphonse de Candolle, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, James G. Lennox, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, DNA, genetic mutations, Gospels, information, intelligent agents, jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, praying mantis, Roman Catholic, sparrows, specified complexity, Thomas Aquinas}

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Otangelo Grasso

Date
December 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, calculations, chance, Eugene V. Koonin, jackpot, James Tour, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Long Story Short, metabolism, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Phys.org, Powerball, proteins, proteome, protocells, Quanta Magazine, Rice University, RNA world, self-organization, The Logic of Chance, University of North Carolina}

Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

_{Otangelo Grasso
December 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Date
December 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Canceled Science, entropy, Eric Anderson, Eric Hedin, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, nature, physicists, podcast, prebiotic materials, Second Law of Thermodynamics, single-celled organism}

Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life

_{Science and Culture
December 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bells, cathedrals, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, new york, Paris, pompiers}

Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored

_{David Berlinski
December 13, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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If the cathedral had lost something of its causal connection to the past, it had reacquired its original colors and with those colors, its intended design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, acorn worms, algorithms, ancestor, anus, bilaterian animals, computer analysis, deuterostome, Early Cambrian, echinoderms, Fossil Friday (series), Guardian, New York Times, ResearchGate, synapomorphies, synapomorphy, The Guardian, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge}

Fossil Friday: Say Hello to Our Microscopic Granddaddy?

_{Günter Bechly
December 13, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

9}

What we do know is that it is definitely not our earliest ancestor. Another overhyped missing link bites the dust. Read More ›

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Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, Durham University, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, multiverse, particles, Philip Goff, thought, universe}

Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Science and Culture
December 12, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›