Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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

12}

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

4}

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

11}

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Aristotle, Brian Keating, dysteleology, earth, Fox News, Guillermo Gonzalez, high school, humanity, Jay Richards, Luke Barnes, Nicolaus Copernicus, promotion, The Privileged Planet, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance

_{David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

4}

It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, disabilities, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, euthanasia, evolution, Francis Galton, Germany, Ian Dowbiggin, illnesses, Judeo-Christian tradition, punishment, World War I}

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

_{Richard Weikart
August 26, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

11}

One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cellular basis of consciousness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian theory, evolution, genomes, James Shapiro, living cells, meaning, natural selection, panpsychism, Philip Ball, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purpose, random mutation, tautology}

Now, Here’s a Theory of Evolution Based on Cellular “Thinking”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Note how far we are from the world of Darwin’s followers now, while still staying with the evidence. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, David Chalmers, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, music, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, promissory materialism, seizures, Stony Brook University, Wilder Penfield}

What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theism, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, freethinkers, ID the Future, intelligent evolution, materialism, medicine, Plinian Society, podcast, Scotland, theistic evolution, worldview}

On the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

_{Science and Culture
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Michael Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autopoiesis, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, molecular structures, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›