Tag: Richard Sternberg | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. 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
David Coppedge

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, ATP synthase, blueprint, chromosomes, cohesins, condensins, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrostatics, EMBO Journal, error catastrophe, genome, gravity, Hurricanes, mitochondria, mitosis, mutations, physical laws, Plato's Revenge, proteome, respiration, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), tornadoes}

A Cell Makes “Decisions” — But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?

_{David Coppedge
April 15, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Watching cells under a microscope, we sense familiarity with their challenges when they face puzzles. How is this possible if their nature is strictly physical? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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, biology, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, evolutionary biologists, genes, gray wolves, immaterial genome, Neil Shubin, Richard Sternberg, USA Today}

Cold Water on “Dire Wolves”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 9, 2025

Archaeology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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"These are not dire wolves," says evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. "These are gray wolves with 20 edited genes." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, biology, biology textbooks, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, friendship, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, peppered moths, podcast, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, wisdom}

A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology textbooks, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Haeckel’s embryos, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Plato, Poulsbo, Richard Sternberg, scientists, textbooks}

Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, articles, atheism, books, hubris, humility, humor, ID the Future, intellectual honesty, intelligent design, interviews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Wells, online course, podcast, Richard Sternberg, scientific truth, video}

Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, genes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, logic, machines, podcast, Research, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution}

Richard Sternberg on the Information Beyond the Genome

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There’s “something phenomenal” going on inside the cell, says Dr. Sternberg. Probing and elucidating this mystery has been a focus of his research. 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 ›