Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Michael Neve, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, sociobiologists, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, J.P. Moreland, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Quarterly Review of Biology}

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

_{David Coppedge
June 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, atheism, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, common descent, Darwin Day, eugenics, evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, J.B.S. Haldane, Jane Austen, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, love, meaning, natural selection, population growth, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, United States, value}

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

_{William A. Dembski
June 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, digital code, discoveries, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, life, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, universe, worldview}

Stephen Meyer and Piers Morgan: Design, Atheism, and God

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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There’s a major disconnect between the messaging of popular atheists like Richard Dawkins and reality. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, Brian Miller, Christianity, Douglas Axe, Ernst Haeckel, faith and science, Father Michael Chaberek, Germany, God Hypothesis, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, Krakow, Napoleon, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Poland, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet}

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

8}

Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Bible, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinism, David Sedley, Epicurus, Higher Criticism, James Henry Froude, Lawrence Krauss, Mircea Eliade, Old Testament, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Stonehenge, theomachy, Victorian England}

Why Has Darwin Been Believed?

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

17}

By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, accidents, Caltech, cells, complexity, David Coppedge, eternity, Hurricanes, information, insects, nature, openness, organisms}

Deconstructing Belief in Evolution

_{Eric Hedin
June 9, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Reproductive Science

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A young biochemist suggested to me that hurricanes constitute an observable example of a natural artifact exhibiting complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, BBC, Dogs, fear, guilt, humans, University of Guelph, University of Pennsylvania}

Can Dogs Feel Guilty?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 8, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Dog expert Zazie Todd says no; when assessing dog emotions, we should think more simply. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Antony Flew, Baruch Spinoza, Cornell University, Fred Hoyle, John Horgan, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Peter Atkins, Richard Feynman, There Is a God, Werner Heisenberg}

Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 7, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, evolution, François Jacob, genes, intelligent design, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William A. Dembski, Zeitgeist}

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›