Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Casey Luskin, cosmologists, Darwinism, Darwinists, ENCODE, errors, function, genome, human genome, Into the Impossible, junk DNA, mistakes, predictions, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins, UC San Diego}

Hey, Please Ask Dawkins About His “Junk DNA” Goof

_{David Klinghoffer
August 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our friend Brian Keating, a cosmologist at UC San Diego, does wonderful interviews. A particularly fun recent one was with Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
August 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, curiosity, eclipses, France, Greece, Jay Richards, lunar eclipses, natural phenomena, planetary habitability, science, technological advancement, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipses}

Solar Eclipses May Have Spurred Both Scientific Curiosity and Economic Development

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
August 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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A study explores the relationship between curiosity, triggered by natural phenomena such as solar eclipses, and economic development in pre-modern societies. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adaptability, engineers, flexibility, information flow, molecular machines, neurons, parkour, PNAS, proteins, Science (journal), Singapore, squirrels, synaptic transmission}

Wrap Your Mind Around the Synapse — Just Try

_{David Coppedge
August 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The method neurons use to transfer signals seems like a kludge. But it works astonishingly fast and efficiently. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian paradigm, evolution, faith and science, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Behe, molecular biology, professors, worldview}

When an Atheist Professor’s Worldview Imploded

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2024

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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For 25 years, John D. Wise considered Darwinian evolution the most plausible explanation for life’s origin and development. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, angiosperms, biosphere, breeding, cell membrane, combustion, dispositionalism, intentionality, migration, ozone, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Thomas Aquinas, transcription, Unmoved Mover}

Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Philosophy

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One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, cells, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biology, gene regulatory networks, genes, heart attack, heart failure, intelligent design, James Tour, medicine, RNA, The Extracellular Space (series), The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Your Designed Body}

The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place

_{Howard Glicksman
August 28, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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"Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, cancer, chromosomes, Down syndrome, kinetochores, metaphase, microtubules, mitotic spindle, phosphatase, prometaphase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumors, yeast}

Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 27, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Larry Sanger, Michael Behe, New York Times, no true Scotsman, peer review, peer-reviewed literature, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument

_{Daniel Witt
August 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alaska, atmosphere, beauty, clouds, comets, earth, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, Melissa Cain Travis, meteors, Museum of the Bible, nebulae, rainbows, scientific knowledge, solar system, spectroscopes, stars, telescopes, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipses, water cycle}

Beauty and Our Privileged Planet

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
August 27, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, anaphase, cell division, chromatids, chromosomes, Down syndrome, eukaryotic cell cycle, kinetochore, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, prometaphase, prophase, proteins, quality control, somatic cells, spindle assembly checkpoint, telophase}

The Elegant Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without this exquisitely engineered system, the cell risks distributing an uneven number of chromosomes to the daughter cells. Read More ›