Tag: Günter Bechly | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Christians, computer scientists, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, epigenetics, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, immaterial genome, intelligent design, John Zmirak, logos, materialists, mathematicians, Michael Levin, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Proverbs, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Tufts University}

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

_{John Zmirak
May 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Technology

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"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
February 14, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Zoology
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, Günter Bechly, humans, John West, koalas, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun}

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
February 14, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Zoology

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I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bret Weinstein, Darwinism, designer, epigenetic information, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, Günter Bechly, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, morphological change, natural selection, parsimony, Platonists, random mutation, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, tiger, USAID}

Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, animals, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian radiation, Current Biology, Darwin-skeptics, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, fossils, genetic information, Günter Bechly, molecular clock, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygenation, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Richard Sternberg, Science Advances, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, trace fossils, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh}

Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
January 31, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, birds, Boeing 747, Current Biology, fossils, gigantism, Günter Bechly, magic, mutations, Neil Thomas, Origin, paleontologists, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, selection, The Conversation, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Portsmouth}

Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, genes, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, mammals, paleontologists, placental mammals, podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion}

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Crossway, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, death, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, paleontologists, podcast, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Günter Bechly on Fossils and Common Descent

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We were shocked and grieved to learn of the death of our friend and colleague Günter Bechly last week. Read More ›