Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, John Ray, mammals, physiology, pterosaurs, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Wyoming}

Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Günter Bechly
January 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
January 2, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, atoms, book reviews, disenchantment, How to Save the West, intelligent design, meaning, purpose, quantum physics, Reductionism, science, Spencer Klavan, spirit, subatomic particles, telos, universe}

Spencer Klavan Asks: What Is the Universe Made Of?

_{Emily Sandico
January 2, 2025

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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In ancient and medieval times, the world “seemed alive with spirit and divine fire.” That humans should be invested with spirit and soul was only natural. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aleksandr Oparin, bacteria, butterflies, fitness, genetic mutations, Heliconius, Icons of Evolution, inheritance, Jonathan Wells, Lepidopterans, mainstream media, materialism, MicroRNAs, moths, peppered moths, RNAs, Science (journal), selection, Stanley L. Miller, Zombie Science (book)}

Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

_{David Coppedge
January 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Autonomous University of Madrid, C. elegans, Current Science, David Coppedge, evolution, Gary Ruvkun, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Karolinska Institutet, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nicholas Robine, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sarnovsky, roundworm, Subhash Lakhotia, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, Victor Ambros, William A. Dembski}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
January 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, atheism, Brian Miller, Brown University, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, citation bluffing, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Debating Design, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, Ernst Mayr, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Guillermo Gonzalez, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Nature’s Destiny, No Free Lunch, Oxford University, Oxford University Press, Professor Dave, proteins, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Robert Laughlin, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

_{John G. West
December 31, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christian education, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Craig Keener, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, ghetto mentality, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, Mike Licona, N. T. Wright, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Root of All Evil, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

No. 3 Story of 2024: Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
December 30, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, evidence for evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

_{Günter Bechly
December 28, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 27, 2024

Categories
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", coacervates, code, evolution, George Washington Carver, hydrothermal vents, James Joule, James Simpson, James Tour, Joana Xavier, metabolism, Michael Faraday, Nick Lane, Paul Nelson, Perry Marshall, primordial soup, Professor Dave, proteinoid microspheres, publish or perish, RNA world, Robert Boyle, spark-discharge tubes, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, target of selection}

No. 6 Story of 2024: Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
December 27, 2024

Origin of Life

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The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, cartilage, Fossil Friday (series), Permian period, sharks}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil That Kept Scientists Guessing

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2024

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Could intelligent design better explain this weird feeding apparatus? Of course. Read More ›