Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial cell division, cell division, cell walls, Charles Darwin, evolution, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent agents, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast}

Irreducible Complexity in Bacterial Cell Division

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Anaximander, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Council of Nicaea, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, hierophany, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, King James Bible, miracles, Mircea Eliade, Neal Gillespie, On the Origin of Species, poetry, prophets, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, Tertullian, The Canon, The Voyage of the Beagle, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, American Founding, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, genocide, history, Independence Day, intelligent design, John West, Martin Luther King Jr., Nazi Germany, Nazism, scientific racism, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Washington DC}

Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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The whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 2, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, astrology, atheism, Christof Koch, creationism, David Chalmers, evidence, homeopathy, intelligent design, Massimo Pigliucci, parapsychology, philosophers, pseudoscience, Skeptical Inquirer, UFOs}

What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 2, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 2, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bees, consciousness, Cornell University, herbivores, illusion, intelligence, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, naturalism, panpsychism}

Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant as “Intelligent”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 2, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, argument from ignorance, Daniel Witt, Darwinian processes, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, organisms, podcast, vital force, vitalism}

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 2, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Vitalism is the age-old idea that living things possess a vital force — some fundamental element that generally does not exist in non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosphere, copper, insulin, intentionality, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, life, Newtonian mechanics, oxygen, powers ontology, purpose, redox chain, science of purpose, thermodynamics}

Illuminating the Power of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, beauty, engineers, fungi, intelligent design, nature, origami, Science (journal), Stanford University, Tanzania, The New Yorker}

Scientist Discovers a Protist’s “Cellular Origami” — The First Known Case

_{Daniel Witt
July 1, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You will probably not be surprised to hear that Dr. Prakash is an engineer as well as a biologist. This is predictable. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplanes, beetles, Brian Josephson, Charles Darwin, consciousness, creativity, David Klinghoffer, degradation, encyclopedias, evolution, intelligent design, James Tour, libraries, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
July 1, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 30, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, feelings, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, The Mind of a Bee, Tufts University}

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 30, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Read More ›