Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
February 6, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Current Biology, Dennis Venema, DNA, evolution, functional sequences, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Nature Reviews Genetics, protein folding, proteins, RNA, Sapientia, sequence space, Undeniable (book)}

Losing the Forest by Fixating on the Trees — A Response to Venema’s Critique of Undeniable

_{Douglas Axe
February 6, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I was asked recently to take part in an online symposium. The journal Sapientia, published by the Carl F.H. Henry Center, invited four theistic evolutionists to review my book. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 6, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", A Meaningful World, enzymes, evolution, Finland, Helsinki University of Technology, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Jonathan Wells, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, microbes, The Privileged Planet, Zombie Science (book)}

The Scientist Who Shouldn’t Exist — New Book by Matti Leisola, Jonathan Witt

_{Science & Culture
February 6, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

"What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector?" Read More ›

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post

Date
February 6, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, cancer theory, Darwin's Doubt, hypoxia, Jonathan Wells, Julian Huxley, Lund University, Marble Canyon, oxygen theory, PLOS ONE, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, Sweden, trilobites, tumor, Zombie Science (book)}

Sick of the Oxygen Theory of the Cambrian Explosion? Here’s the Cancer Theory

_{Science & Culture
February 6, 2018

Evolution

8}

Once upon a time, a cell became a tumor. Animals were soon to follow. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, Eric Hedin, evolution, First Amendment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Napoleon, Pierre-Simon Laplace, religion, Richard Dawkins, teaching, The Blind Watchmaker, University of Chicago, Why Evolution Is True}

The (Ir)religious Theory of Evolution – A Darwinist Gets Called Out

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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University of Chicago evolutionist Jerry Coyne suffers from cognitive dissonance. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, eyes, Geoffrey Simmons, hands, hearing, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, olfaction, salmon, senses, smell, sound, touch, vision}

Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 5, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds: Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, biotechnology, chromosomes, cloning, fetus, Frankenstein, genetic material, gestation, human cloning, human life, IVF, mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, UK Parliament, United Kingdom, zygote}

First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 4, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

3}

The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 3, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, atheism, barnacles, Censor of the Year, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Christmas, creation myth, Darwin Day, Darwinism, evolution, fish, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, religion, Richard Dawkins, Washington Times}

A.N. Wilson and the Religious Nature of Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

Wilson's biography sounds like appropriate reading for the holy day of Darwin, which is hardly more than a week away. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, fossil record, HMS Beagle, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, macroevolution, Michael Flannery, microevolution, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

A.N. Wilson Is Right: “Darwin Was Wrong”

_{Jonathan Wells
February 2, 2018

Evolution

5}

I enjoyed Wilson's book, and I learned a lot from it. But this biography’s most interesting feature is its firm rejection of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Astrobiology Magazine, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran era, Gabon, Mary Droser, microbial mats, NASA, On the Origin of Species, oxygen theory, Philip Donoghue, Spriggina, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Riverside, University of Bristol, University of California, University of Poitiers}

Cambrian Explosion Blues

_{Science & Culture
February 2, 2018

Evolution

6}

Here’s a sampling of the latest speculations about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›