Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 26, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, alphabet soup, Andrew Ellington, codons, DNA, entropy, Eugene Koonin, information, Michael Yarus, RNA world, Shannon information}

Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

_{Brian Miller
June 26, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, ACLU, conscience, Hippocratic Oath, Illinois, medicine, Roman Catholic}

Illinois Compels MDs to Discuss Abortion “Benefits”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2017

Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Medicine

4}

I have predicted that “medical conscience” will become a huge social controversy in the next decade. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, cells, genetic code, ice, intelligent design, materialism, Sarah Chaffee, self-organization, thermodynamics, tornadoes}

Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios

_{Science and Culture
June 24, 2017

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

2}

This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
June 23, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, diamond, evolution, Hans Vodder, intelligent design, Sahara Desert, theistic evolution, theology, Undeniable (book)}

Undeniable? A Conversation with Theistic Evolutionist Hans Vodder

_{Douglas Axe
June 23, 2017

Faith & Science, Philosophy

5}

Suppose I were to place a small diamond just below the surface of the sand in the Sahara Desert, and you were to set out to find it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 23, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, education, evolution, Granville Sewell, Richard Dawkins, Turkey, Winston Ewert}

Evolution Out of the Curriculum? If So, a Bad Idea from Turkey

_{David Klinghoffer
June 23, 2017

Evolution, Science Education

3}

The fact that evolution is both important and “controversial” is one reason we strongly favor teaching it thoroughly in high school biology classes. Read More ›

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Date
June 23, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Denton, PNAS, protein folding, Undeniable (book), University of Pennsylvania}

Escape from Randomness: Can Foldons Explain Protein Functional Shapes?

_{Science and Culture
June 23, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Faced with impossible odds, materialists struggle to find natural laws that can fold a protein correctly the way life does. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 22, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, euthanasia, Netherlands, psychiatry}

Netherlands Euthanasia Guru Bemoans His Handiwork

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 22, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Boudewijn Chabot is the Netherlander psychiatrist who assisted the suicide of a deeply depressed woman who wished to die after the demise of her two children. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 22, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, ADP, amino acids, ATP, enzymes, Michael Russell, natural engines, Nick Lane, thermodynamics, volcano}

Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue

_{Brian Miller
June 22, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors. Read More ›

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Author
David K. DeWolf

Date
June 22, 2017

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Carl Jung, climate change, earth, Gaia, Moon, overpopulation, Paris accords, space exploration, Stephen Hawking}

Stephen Hawking: Off the Planet, to the Moon, in 200-500 Years

_{David K. DeWolf
June 22, 2017

Physical Sciences

4}

I am struck by the similarities between Hawking’s call for space exploration and the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Paris climate accords. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 21, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Dan Graur, ENCODE, evolution, junk DNA, University of Houston, Zombie Science (book)}

Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger. Read More ›