Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Germany

lost-in-space
Image credit: NASA.

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Read More ›
ravens
Photo credit: © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons.

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›
Pterosaur
Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
Hesperornis skeleton
Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory
Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, via Flickr.

Theory in Crisis? Circling the Wagons

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn compared scientific revolutions to political revolutions. Read More ›
Syringe_with_needle_(2)
Photo credit: Intropin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide

Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die. Read More ›
Sir_Francis_Galton_by_Charles_Wellington_Furse
Image: Francis Galton, via National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Read More ›
Yuval_Noah_Harari_giving_a_talk
Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by Alain Herzog, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›
Charles_Darwin_in_1881
Photo credit: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Read More ›
image001
Photo: Brian Miller, Jay Richards, Douglas Axe, and Michael Chaberek, courtesy of Michael Chaberek.

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

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

© Discovery Institute