Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

bacterial flagella

Salmonella
Photo: Salmonella, via Wikimedia Commons.

Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

A transcriptional hierarchy is a regulatory system in which genes are expressed in a specific ordered sequence. Read More ›
Springtail_Pogonognathellus_longicornis_(24907256347).jpg
Photo: A springtail, by gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it.  Read More ›
The Design Inference
Image source: Discovery Institute Press.

An Argument from Ignorance? 

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›
John Lennon memorial
Photo: John Lennon memorial, Central Park, by Lolalatorre, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

Rosenhouse’s belief in the creative power of evolutionary processes is based not on hard data but on his faith in the philosophy of scientific materialism. Read More ›
guns on USS Iowa
Photo: Guns on USS Iowa, by PH1 Jeff Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Closer Look at the T3SS Reveals Design

If one visualizes the recoil action of large guns on ships as they fire, that is perhaps what the EA (export apparatus) is doing for the T3SS. Read More ›
honeybee

ID-Friendly Biomimetic Research Continues Apace

The word “biomimetics” entered the dictionary in 1974. In the 45 years since, scientists have found design inspiration in everything biological from molecules to mammals. Read More ›
electric cell

Welcome to the Electric Cell

Chemical signaling in the cell is fairly well known, but what about electrical signaling? Is a cell wired like an electrical network? Read More ›

At North Dakota State University, Presenting the Positive Case for Design

Two issues of note dominated the Q&A: the Type III Secretory System (T3SS) as a supposed evolutionary precursor to the bacterial flagellum, and whether the Cambrian explosion really was an actual event in the history of life. Read More ›

Engineering at Its Finest: Bacterial Chemotaxis and Signal Transduction

The bacterial flagellum represents not just a problem of irreducible complexity. Rather, the problem extends far deeper than that. What we are now observing is the existence of irreducibly complex systems within irreducibly complex systems. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute