Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Russia

cheetah
Photo: Forged fossil cheetah skull, Wang 2013, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›
robot writing
robot writing
Image Credit: BPawesome - Adobe Stock

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›
Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn
Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›
Silent Night
Photo source: Screenshot from Silent Night trailer (fair use).

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
farmer Sri Lanka
Photo credit: Kannan Arunasalam, IWMI, via Flickr (cropped).

Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”

After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
phosfate mine
Photo: Phosfate mine, Republic of Nauru, by Lorrie Graham/AusAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus

To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element. Read More ›
Notre Dame
Photo: Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, by manhhai, via Flickr (cropped).

Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History

Anyone imagining that human depravity and the God hypothesis are things of the past are themselves living in the past. Read More ›
Silent Night
Photo source: Screenshot from Silent Night trailer (fair use).

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
University of Chicago campus
University of Chicago
Photo: University of Chicago campus, by Leefon at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Read More ›
Tribrachidium heraldicum
Photo: Tribrachidium heraldicum from the Ediacaran period
, by Aleksey Nagovitsyn (User:Alnagov), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Precambrian House of Cards

Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›

© Discovery Institute