Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Carl Sagan, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Crick, groupthink, Imperial College London, Interesting Engineering, Leslie Orgel, Live Science, Lynn Margulis, Mark Thompson, Medium, National Geographic, Occam’s razor, origin of life, protocell, Psychology for Mental Health, Robert Endres, Science Sensei, spontaneous emergence, Star Trek, Star Wars, terraforming, Universe Today}

At Present, the Origin of Life Isn’t a Scientific Question; It’s a Political One

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Some answers are Correct Groupthink but others will get you Canceled. It’s not clear that the current approach will enable many more insights. Read More ›

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, entertainment industry, evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideological differences, ideology, Jerry Coyne, Jimmy Kimmel, journals, lawsuits, Marcel Crok, peer-reviewed articles, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ratings, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix}

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025

Environment & Climate, Scientific Freedom

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In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, American Psychologist, Chronicle of Higher Education, consciousness, Etzel Cardeña, Harold Puthoff, hostility, human mind, Mario Beauregard, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nature (journal), neuroscience, Overton window, physics, Proceedings of the IEEE, remote viewing, Roger Penrose, Russell Targ, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sam Harris, telepathy, The End of Faith, The Immortal Mind, The Spiritual Brain, theories}

In Science, the Cost of Defending Materialism Is Rising

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 18, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín raises — in the very venue that hosts, say, Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder — the validity of telepathy research. Read More ›

Study of quantum energy physics model of molecules and nuclear energy 3d rendering

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Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic research, affiliation, cancel culture, conspiracy theorists, David Lindley, Eric Weinstein, Germany, Joe Rogan, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, language, paper mill, physics, Piers Morgan, pseudocience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, Team Cancel, tone policing, Wall Street Journal}

For Criticizing Her Field, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by Her Institution

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

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Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic credentials, academic freedom, Claire Lehmann, commenters, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, Elsevier journals, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, harassment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, pseudosciences, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Barnard Medal, Benoît B. Mandelbrot, cardiod, clouds, Eugene Wigner, Fibonacci series, flow channels, fractal, France, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Gregor Mendel, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Ignaz Semmelweis, Jews, lakebed, mathematics, mavericks, mountains, Nazis, Poland, Ralph Gomory, reputation, Science (journal), Science News, Stephen Ornes, trees, truth, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, William Harvey}

Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

_{David Coppedge
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, co-origination, cofactors, David A. Hullender, DNA repair, elementary particles, Elsevier, Elsevier journals, enzymes, evolution, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, junkyard tornado, minimal living cell, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma mycoides, naturalistic evolutionary processes, Olen R. Brown, oxidative phosphorylation, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, universe, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, vitamins, Why Evolution Is True}

To a Pro-Intelligent Design Paper, Biologist Jerry Coyne Reacts with Question-Begging

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The paper seeks to elucidate the plausibility of naturalistic evolutionary processes generating a minimal living cell. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, functional intermediates, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, English, Europe, Europeans, faith and science, fine-tuning, France, Galileo Galilei, God the Science the Evidence, Greenwich Village, heat death, Michel-Yves Bolloré, New York City, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, Princeton University, relativity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Spain, St. Joseph’s Church, Stephen Meyer, UC Berkeley, United States, universe}

New Book: God Hypothesis, European Style; Events at Princeton, Berkeley

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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In the faith context, the popular picture in America of what Europe is like — the land that God forgot — may need to be revised. Read More ›