Tag: carbon

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ant swarms, Audrey Dussutour, biology, brain, carbon, cognition, consciousness, cuttlefish, eliminative materialism, eyes, fungi, Hokkaido University, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, jellyfish, limbs, Michael Levin, mouth, nuclei, oat flakes, panpsychism, Physarum polycephalum, plants, protoplasm, Samanth Subramanian, silicon, The Guardian, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trees}

Slime Smarts: These Brainless Blobs Are Brighter than You Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some want to claim that slime molds poses a threat to the idea that humans are exceptional. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, human rights, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo}

On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acetyl molecule, acetyl tags, amino acids, Ant-Man, bacterium, beams, biology, broccoli, carbon, cells, Chromosome 17, DNA, engineering, epigenetic information, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, girders, histone acetylase enzyme, histone core, histone deacetylase enzyme, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, hydrogen, Innerspace, intelligent design, James Gills, methyl tag, miniaturization, natural gas, nucleus, oxygen, physics, proteins, submarine, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Thomas Woodward}

20,000 Bots Under the Sea: A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 23, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Imagine you have been invited to a futuristic discovery center, a facility that has pioneered the ability to shrink people and objects many orders of magnitude. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 17, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, biology, carbon, combustion, computer chips, cosmos, disclosure, Disclosure Day, Discovery Institute Press, Earth’s crust, environmental fitness, extraterrestrials, fire, Goldilocks Zone, government, hominins, Homo erectus, hydrological cycle, intelligent design, knuckle-walking, lasers, magnets, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, oxygen molecules, photosynthesis, plant matter, PLOS ONE, primal blueprint, purpose, respiration, semiconductors, South Africa, space, spacecraft, Steven Spielberg, sugars, technology, The Miracle of Man, tools, trees, UFOs, universe, Wonderwerk Cave, wood}

Michael Denton’s Work Shows ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe

_{Casey Luskin
June 17, 2026

Earth Sciences, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Fire is a central part of human existence, and it’s a necessary requirement for building technology, whether primitive or complex. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, astronomy, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, carbon, Carl Sagan, Catholic priests, civil engineers, documentary, earth, Edwin Hubble, Energy, explosion, Frank Tipler, Georges Lemaître, heavy elements, iron, Jay Richards, john lennox, mathematical laws, matter, Mount Wilson, oxygen, physicists, physics, planetary science, scientific establishment, solar system, space, stars, stellar evolution, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, The Story of Everything, tolerances, universe, universe-creating machine, Voyager 1}

Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

_{Walter Myers III
April 16, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

10}

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 27, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, carbon, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, intelligent design, laptop computer, laws of nature, monkeys, natural processes, Neil Thomas, neutrons, William Shakespeare}

There’s a Limit to What Nature Can Do

_{Eric Hedin
November 27, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Nature actually has precious few options for manipulating the natural ingredients (atoms) of this universe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, ecosystem, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, biosphere, California, carbon, Cassini mission, continents, Europa, European Space Agency, Ganymede, habitability, hydrogen, lakes, magnetic field, methane, Michael Denton, NASA, nitrogen, organic molecules, Saturn, temperature, The Privileged Planet, Titan, water, weather}

Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test

_{David Coppedge
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, biological forms, carbon, cells, Eric Anderson, foresight, Goldilocks Zone, intelligence, life, Michael Denton, The Miracle of the Cell, trees, vitalism, water}

Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 7, 2024

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, carbon, elements, Fred Hoyle, Geraint Lewis, helium, hydrogen, hydrophobic force, life, Luke Barnes, macromolecules, neutrons, nitrogen, organic molecules, oxygen, protons, silicon, universe}

The Remarkable Carbon Atom

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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This is another one of many countless features of our universe that have to be “just right” for life — in particular, advanced life — to exist. Read More ›