Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Connop Thirlwall, David Newsome, Death and the Ploughman, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, Thomas Carlyle, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Bill Clinton, culture, Donald Trump, extraterrestrials, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, jokes, King’s College, Pentagon, science, science fiction, UFO sightings, UFOlogy, unidentified anomalous phenomena, United Kingdom, United States, universe}

Is Belief in Aliens a Problem for Science?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 11, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

5}

King’s College philosophy prof Tony Milligan worries that too many people believe that aliens have visited Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, euthanasia, experts, freedom, gender-affirming care, government, mastectomies, medical establishment, Nature (journal), organ harvesting, professional journals, puberty blockers, public health, Racism, Science (journal), technocracy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Nations, vaccine mandates, WHO}

For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greeks, Benjamin Wiker, compounds, elements, gold, human vision, hydrogen, ions, Jonathan Witt, matter, oxygen, reactions, sun, Svante Arrhenius, The Privileged Planet, water, William Nicholson}

Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 10, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

7}

Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Energy, insects, intelligent design, size, spiders, vertebrates}

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

_{Eric Hedin
September 10, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, advanced life, astronomers, coincidence, conspiracy, Copernican principle, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitability, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, life, philosophers, podcast, scientific discovery, The Privileged Planet, universe}

New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

1}

A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, animals, assisted suicide, Charles Darwin, dementia, euthanasia, future, human life, infants, persons, Peter Singer, rationality, right to life, self-consciousness, The Death of Humanity, worldview}

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

_{Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

5}

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alcohol, antibiotics, COVID-19, disease, Doctor's Diary (series), factory, free will, gender dysphoria, intelligent design, measles, mental illness, mumps, polio, pollution, pregnancy, Rabbi Harold Kushner, rubella, sewage, tetanus, Vaccines, vestigial structures, vitamin C, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

9}

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain injury, Carl Zimmer, Charles Camosy, civil rights, consciousness, electronics, human brain, humanity, Neuralink, neurons}

We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state. Read More ›