Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian process, Eric Hedin, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, organisms, podcast, sleeping, wakefulness, waking}

Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 20, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some scientists have posited that organisms came prepackaged to sleep, and that we only needed to evolve wakefulness. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, death, doctors, dying, MAiD, medical ethics, oncology, patients}

MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, CDC, City Journal, COVID-19, diseases, FDA, Francis Collins, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, journalists, lawmakers, power, public policy, scientists, vaccine mandates}

What Turned an Esteemed Doctor into a Scheming Authoritarian?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Fauci damaged his own reputation by trashing sound scientists, denouncing inconvenient evidence, and even going so far as to say “I represent science.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, blood, capillaries, carbon dioxide, cells, chloroplasts, complex life, Fred Hoyle, hydrological cycle, ice, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, oceans, photosynthesis, prior probability, surface tension, The Wonder of Water, universal solvent, viscosity, water, weathering}

The Properties of Water Point to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 18, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It becomes increasingly difficult to deny what Fred Hoyle called a “common sense interpretation of the facts.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, bacteria, Canada, cell division, Chandra Wickramasinghe, common ancestry, common design, DNA replication, eukaryotes, fossil record, genetic code, genomes, Greenland, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Nature Ecology and Evolution, prokaryotes, Ribosome, ScienceAlert, Stephen Jay Gould, Western Australia}

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

_{Casey Luskin
July 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, animals, brain, Charlotte Martial, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, ethology, Grossman School of Medicine, humans, near-death experiences, neuroscience, opossum, Rachel Nuwer, Sam Parnia, Scientific American}

Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 18, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The authors provide a number of accounts from people who experienced altered consciousness when under attack by large animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charlotte Martial, death, drugs, dying, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Rachel Nuwer, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Steve Taylor}

Near-Death Experiences Compared to Drug Trips

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is an effort underway to fully naturalize NDEs — that is, to make them something that just happens to the traumatized brain. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood vessels, brain, cells, chromosomes, digestive enzymes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), Dubai, enzymes, evolution, genetic disease, genetic instructions, heart, human body, intelligent design, Library of Congress, movies, nano-machines, Nautilus, New York City, nourishment, proteins, RNA, stem-cell, submarine, supplies}

Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science}

Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness

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This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›