Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 11, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asgard archaea, BIO-Complexity, control systems, eukaryotes, evolution, Evolution News, homologues, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore network, last eukaryotic common ancestor, proteins}

New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 11, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This is a subject of long-standing interest to me, and I have published several articles here. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 10, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, attorneys, Casey Luskin, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Forensics, ID the Future, ID theorists, intelligent design, podcast}

How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 10, 2024

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How much do you know about intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to defend it? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 9, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, chimpanzees, human language, languages, monkeys, neuroscience, University of Portsmouth}

A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 9, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, flatworms, Fossil Friday (series), jello, microbial mats, muscles, nervous system, Precambrian, protists, South Australia, trace fossils, Tribrachidium}

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

_{Günter Bechly
November 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, baby, David Klinghoffer, DNA, doctors, education, Evolution News, healing, health, mechanics, mechanism, medical school, medical science, medicine, patients, physicians, science, scientific atheism, soul, womb}

The Machine Model in Medicine

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Metaphysics

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The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Dallas, Darwinism, David Hull, Debating Design, evolution, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, intelligent design, Jon Buell, Michael Ruse, N. T. Wright, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Subboor Ahmad, The God Delusion}

Remembering Michael Ruse

_{William A. Dembski
November 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

21}

Paradoxically, he was ardent in his Darwinism, mild in his atheism, and fair-minded to intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, Bobby Azarian, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 4, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alice in Wonderland, atheism, behaviorism, Caligula, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, cosmogony, David Berlinski, Freudianism, Lewis Carroll, Madame Blavatsky, Marxism, multiverse, On the Origin of Species, quantum fluctuation, Richard Dawkins, theistic Darwinism, Theory of Everything, Theosophy, Tom Wolfe, Universal Darwinism, Victorians}

Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

_{Neil Thomas
November 4, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, music theory, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›