Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 21, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, human brain, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke}

Do We Need Language to Think?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, amino acids, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, evolution, Ewen Callaway, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute}

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

_{David Coppedge
November 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 19, 2024

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, fossils, genus Homo, geologists, hominids, human race, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Richard Dawkins}

Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 19, 2024

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Biden Administration, Covid vaccines, COVID-19, Francis Collins, John West, junk DNA, lockdowns, masks, National Institutes of Health, Politics, schools, skeptics, The Federalist, The Road to Wisdom, Vaccines, wisdom}

Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, COVID-19, creator, Darwin Devolves, Evangelical Christians, evolution, faith and science, Francis Collins, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Joe Biden, junk DNA, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, natural, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, The Language of God, The Road to Wisdom, unintelligent processes}

Francis Collins Renews Attack on Michael Behe and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It isn’t intelligent design that “has fallen victim to advances in science.” It’s Darwin’s outdated theory. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, New Atheists, persuasion, podcast, rhetorical strategies, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson}

From Tom Gilson, Rhetorical Advice for Opponents of Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Getting ID theory right instead of criticizing a made-up straw man would be a good start. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carlo Alberto Cossano, Casey Luskin, Centre for Intelligent Design, David Galloway, Discovery Institute, Europe, evolution, Ferdinando Catalano, intelligent design, Rope Kojonen, theistic evolution, thought police, Venice, Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie}

Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
November 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Doolittle Walcott, China, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, flight control, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, snowflake, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

_{Eric Cassell
November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 13, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, genes, genomes, genomics, intelligent design, nucleotide sequences, ORfan genes, PLOS ONE, search engines, taxonomic groups}

ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 13, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Read More ›