Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

3}

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

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, amino acids, ancestors, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, human origins, humans, Live Science, lumpers, Neanderthals, splitters}

Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA?

_{Casey Luskin
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

6}

The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, cats, Charles Lyell, Darwin Mythology, deism, designer, history, mice, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, variations}

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Doug Monroe, ID the Future, information, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Praxis Circle, religion, Research, science, scientific revolution, Shannon information, specified information, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer: Did Belief in God Make Modern Science Possible?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 11, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

4}

Dr. Meyer explains the difference between mathematical information, or Shannon information, and specified information, a more meaningful type of information. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, authoritarianism, beauty, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado, dehumanization, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute Academy, DiscoveryU, evolution, intelligent design, Long Story Short, Michael Egnor, mountains, nature, Stephen Meyer, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why

_{John G. West
December 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

3}

I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, August Weismann, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, group selection, James G. Lennox, John Hedley Brooke, Michael Ghiselin, Michael Ruse, mythology, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

_{Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Big Think, Dartmouth College, free will, John Horgan, Marcello Gleiser, Michael Egnor, militarism, Mind Matters, Minding the Brain, proofs, quantum mechanics, Racism, sexism, Superdeterminism, The Immortal Mind}

Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, afterlife, cosmos, deism, intelligent design, meaning, mind, obedience, Paul Davies, purpose, religious traditions, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul}

Deism and the Afterlife: Cosmologist Paul Davies Outlines His Views

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

Paul Davies argues that we’re not at the center of the attention of a God who is specifically concerned with us. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, England, events, evolution, intelligent design, Paris, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC}

Denying Darwin: Berlinski and Meyer in Cambridge

_{David Klinghoffer
December 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

These kinds of conversations between Steve Meyer and David Berlinski are usually confined to late night chats when the time zones in Seattle and Paris permit. Read More ›