Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, academia, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, evolution, evolutionary theory, faith and science, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Italy, john lennox, Michael Behe, Peter Robinson, physical world, podcast, science, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Behe, Meyer, and Lennox: Evidence for Design Is Growing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biology, cells, Chance & Necessity, Daniel Witt, final cause, foxes, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, purpose, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons}

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, consciousness, dualism, eliminative materialism, Giulio Tononi, hardware, Hedda Hassel Mørch, illusion, Integrated information theory, materialism, matter, Nautilus, panpsychism, particles, physicalism, software}

Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Asia, Australia, Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, Indonesia, Isaac Newton, Lord Monboddo, man, Racism, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, William Shakespeare}

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 20, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, deletions, DNA, gap divergence, genes, genetic differences, genetics, genome, humans, insertions, Nature (journal), repetitive elements, sequence alignment, Supplemental Data}

Do Large Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent “Technical Failures”?

_{Casey Luskin
June 19, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The insinuation is that something went wrong in the lab during the attempted alignment process. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, apes, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theory, females, humans, Lord Monboddo, monkeys, orangutans, Racism, special creation, species, speech, tails, The Descent of Man, women}

Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 19, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brian Miller, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinian assumptions, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, engineering, engineering principles, engineers, evolution, four-bar linkage, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Research, scholars, scientists, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzee genome, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary genomics, gap divergence, genetics, Haeckel’s embryos, human genome, humans, Icons of Evolution, junk DNA, Nature (journal), non-sex chromosomes, nucleotide, objections, persistent scientific errors, Queen Mary University London, repetitive DNA, Richard Buggs}

Critics Struggle with Evidence Humans and Chimps Are 15 Percent Genetically Different

_{Casey Luskin
June 18, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Before we dive into what critics are saying, I want to note that good authorities have come to similar numerical conclusions as I did. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, billionaires, China, environment, environmentalism, glaciers, heat, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human rights, human uniqueness, humans, nature, nature rights, oceans, Oxford University, plastics, trees, United Nations}

UN Pushes Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 18, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accountability, Center for Science and Culture, communication, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, designer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, drugs, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, humanity, ID Education Day, intelligent design, media, Michael Behe, mutations, naturalism, nature, prison, professors, sex, Summer Seminar, theistic evolution}

Reading Behe in Prison

_{Tova Levengood
June 18, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all. Read More ›