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Is There a Limit to the Number of a Designer’s Creative Acts?

Display content from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy. Always display content from YouTube Open video directly Recently, I was listening to Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1068, followed a couple of days later by watching the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion. What does one have to do with the other? Well, the latter includes in the soundtrack the song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by the 1960s English rock group Procol Harum, and it occurred to me that “A Whiter Shade” may be based on Bach. A little research revealed that the organ countermelody of “A Whiter Shade” is, indeed, based on BWV 1068. The song itself is Read More ›

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Low magnification micrograph of Sagittal section of a rat embryo displaying the progression of the brain oral cavity cardiac organ hepatic structure and small intestines alongside the spina
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In Mouse and Human Embryo Development, Critical Transition Points Beyond Neo-Darwinism

On ID the Future, CSC Senior Fellow Ann Gauger discusses a recent paper in the journal Cell. Read More ›
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Fact Check: No, the Texas Board of Education Has Not Authorized “Creationism” in Its Science Standards

The Texas Board of Education met this past week to discuss the streamlining of its science standards, greeted by much news attention. Read More ›
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Photo from the March for Science in San Francisco, California, on April 22, 2017.
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March for Science Gets “Hijacked” by Partisanship

If science ever becomes conflated in the public mind with left-wing advocacy, it will profoundly harm that crucial sector. Read More ›
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Biologist Ann Gauger: Apoptosis (Cell Death) Is an Enigma for Darwinism

Sarah Chaffee and Discovery Institute biologist Ann Gauger have been conducting a multipart conversation about the cell. Read More ›

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