Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
July 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Anomalocaris, antennae, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, functional whole, PNAS, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, Wikipedia}

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

_{Science & Culture
July 20, 2018

Evolution

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True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, artificial intelligence, book, Bradley Center, computers, Google, Mind Matters, video}

Your Vapid, Gimmicky High-Tech Future Is Here!

_{David Klinghoffer
July 19, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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Google Assistant offers to do things for you that you can and should do for yourself. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
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, __k-review, academic freedom, Ann Gauger, climate change, Darwin's Doubt, debate, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Democrats, evolution, Free Science, global warming, Mordor, Neo-Darwinism, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Republicans, Richard Sternberg, science denial, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, survey}

Evolution and the “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

_{Sarah Chaffee
July 19, 2018

Evolution, Scientific Freedom

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If the future of science is really at risk, then surely not debating evolution is folly. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Cologne, Darwinism, evolution, Germany, intelligent design, interview, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, orchids, paleontology, Research, television, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

On German TV, an Interview with ID Proponent Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

_{Granville Sewell
July 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The interview is very accessible to the non-scientist and, in my opinion, is one of the best discussions of the major issues in this debate I have ever heard. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Afrotheria, bats, BIO-Complexity, cladogram, common ancestry, convergent evolution, dependency graph, dolphins, echolocation, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, most recent common ancestor, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›

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Date
July 18, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
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, __k-review, Ann Gauger, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, random, Sarah Chaffee, theistic evolution, theology}

Listen: Gauger Responds to a Confused and Contradictory Review of Theistic Evolution

_{Science & Culture
July 18, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science

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Denis Lamoureux uses classic design language while denying design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, artificial intelligence, computers, education, entrepreneurship, humans, intelligence, machines, Mind Matters, René Descartes, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: Descartes Understood the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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The new Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence is deeply informed by the work of William Dembski. Read More ›

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Date
July 18, 2018

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
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, __nedited, adaptability, adaptation, angiosperms, Austria, causal circularity, Charles Darwin, Douglas Axe, flowering plants, gametes, Genetics (journal), inbreeding, intelligent design, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pollen, theistic evolution, toxins, Undeniable (book)}

Three Ways that Plants Defy Darwin’s Mechanism

_{Science & Culture
July 18, 2018

Botany, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Plants have no brains and limited mobility, yet they have mechanisms to thrive in place. One mechanism involves the prevention of inbreeding. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 17, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, computation, consciousness, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, neurosurgery, spirituality, thought}

Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think

_{David Klinghoffer
July 17, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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This doesn’t mean that people will not abuse the power of AI to hurt each other, and hurt themselves. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
July 17, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, bears, blowhole, body temperature, cetaceans, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, diving, dolphin, evolution, Indohyus, intelligent design, lungs, mammals, milk, nitrogen, sea lion, testes, whales}

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

_{Jonathan Wells
July 17, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›