Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain circuits, endothermy, fish, intelligence, lizards, New York Times, octopuses, reptiles, warm-bloodedness}

There Is No Known Evolutionary Rule for Animal Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Got a pet lizard? Good news. Scientists say it can be trained to do tasks and tricks. Read More ›

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Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian scientists, evolution, history of life, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Life Sciences, natural selection, podcast, random variation, teleology, universe}

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

_{Science and Culture
August 30, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, bacteria, cognition, consciousness, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, evolution, folk psychology, glaciers, human consciousness, intelligence, Massimo Pigliucci, materialists, Monica Gagliano, Pandora’s box, Patricia Churchland, thought}

Plant Consciousness and the Darwinian Project

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The forces Darwinism unleashed were surely bound to head in this direction. It was only a matter of time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Late Triassic, mass extinction, Nevada, Peter Ward, Texas, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
August 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›

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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 ›