Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, biology, cancer, cells, chromatids, chromosome, DNA, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, Live Science, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, The Conversation, tiktaalik, University of Melbourne}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

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Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, anti-humanism, China, ecosystems, endangered species, glaciers, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, lawfare, mountain, nature rights, rivers, waves}

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 24, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, environments, evolutionary icons, Günter Bechly, humans, immaterial genome, Michael Levin, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, science education, science media, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, zoos}

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), American Museum of Natural History, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Emily Reeves, human exceptionalism, human genome, humans, ID the Future, National Geographic, new york, order of magnitude, podcast, Science (journal), Scientific American}

Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 23, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzees, common ancestry, DNA, evolution, gap differences, genetic difference, genetic similarity, genome, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Smithsonian Institution, waiting-time problem}

What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences?

_{Casey Luskin
May 23, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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We have broken a major story about a recently published study showing that the human and chimp genomes are 14.0 percent to 14.9 percent different. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, footnotes, genome, hard science, immaterial genome, Neil Thomas, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Taking Leave of Darwin}

If Richard Sternberg Is Right, That Would Be the End of Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If the genome is not wholly material, then a fully material process like Darwinian evolution cannot even gain full access to it. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bruce Greyson, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, David Klinghoffer, death, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Gary Habermas, matter, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Sean McDowell, soul, spirit, The Immortal Mind}

Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), ape genomes, brains, cell division, chimpanzees, DNA, genetic differences, genomes, human genome, humans, Jonathan Wells, misrepresentation, Nature (journal), Nucleic Acids Research, order of magnitude, repetitive DNA, zombies}

Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA

_{Casey Luskin
May 22, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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I contacted the corresponding authors of the original study and they kindly offered their interpretation of the differences between the human and chimp genomes. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Christians, computer scientists, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, epigenetics, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, immaterial genome, intelligent design, John Zmirak, logos, materialists, mathematicians, Michael Levin, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Proverbs, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Tufts University}

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

_{John Zmirak
May 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Technology

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"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›