Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Nobel Prize

2024_Nobel_Prize_Posters_06
Photo credit: Jenny8lee, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›
near-death experience
Photo credit: Jr Korpa via Unsplash.

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›
Biston_betularia
Photo credit: Syrio, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nobel Prize vs. the Peppered Myth

Winners of the Nobel Prize this year have undercut the Darwinian explanation for industrial melanism. Read More ›
2560px-Blue_Morpho
Photo credit: Derkarts, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery. Read More ›
Giant_Panda_Eating
Photo credit: Chen Wu from Shanghai, China, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper on the Panda’s Thumb: “Striking Imperfection or Masterpiece of Engineering?”

"If the panda’s thumb is an embodiment of bad design, where are the evolutionists’ proposals indicating how they could have done better?" Read More ›
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
Photo: Detail of Arecibo Observatory, by Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligences Promises to Level the Playing Field for Intelligent Design

To set the stage, I posed some questions about scientific testability in general and about the testability of the SETI research program. Read More ›
Big Bang
Image credit: Rick Bolin, via Flickr (cropped).

The Big Bang Simplified

Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Read More ›
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Photo: Jean-Pierre Luminet, courtesy of the author.

New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates

Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. Read More ›
Physics_Nobel_Laureate_Steven_Weinberg,_December,_2014
Photo: Steven Weinberg in 2014, by Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Read More ›
airport security
Photo credit: danjo paluska, via Flickr (cropped).

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute