Hidden or Revealed? Two New Guides for the Perplexed

cancer, Christianity, Christians, clockmaker, codes, death, DNA, faith, Faith & Science, God the Science the Evidence, Granville Sewell, Guide for the Perplexed, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Justin Brierley, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Maimonides, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Middle Ages, National Review, Olivier Bonnassies, podcasters, proofs, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholicism, Science and Culture Today, Scott Adams, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, The God Proofs, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Warfare Thesis, young people
As many already know, the beloved podcaster Scott Adams, beset by cancer, is wavering on death’s portal. Source
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Happy New Year! No. 1 Story for 2025: Bombshell Overturns Myth of 1 Percent Difference

1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), burying the lede, chimpanzees, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Evolution, gap difference, genomes, human exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Kevin Williamson, Museum of Natural History, National Review, Nature (journal), science journalism, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Supplementary Data, zombies
This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Source
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No. 2 Story for 2025: My Conversation with Denis Noble About Intelligent Design

algorithmic control circuits, bacteria, Bill Gates, blind evolution, Casey Luskin, computer programming, conditional logic, conditional logic control circuits, Denis Noble, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, evolutionary biology, glucose, intelligence, Intelligent Design, lactose, Oxford University, Perry Marshall, promoter, pseudocode, RNA polymerase, Third Way of Evolution
In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Source
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No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Evolution, Faith & Science, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, Intelligent Design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, mathematics, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum
Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Source
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Scopes in Reverse: A History of Evolution Education in U.S. Public Schools

American Civil Liberties Union, Antonin Scalia, Ball State University, Clarence Darrow, Council of Europe, Dayton, Discovery Institute, DNA, Epperson v. Arkansas, eric hedin, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, fossil record, freedom from religion foundation, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Legal Science (jurisprudence), monkey law, public schools, Richard Sternberg, science education, Scientific Freedom, Scopes v. State, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Jay Gould, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Texas, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, University of Idaho, William Jennings Bryan
Undoubtedly there will be more court cases and curriculum battles in the future over how to teach evolution. Source
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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

animals, Ascaris megalocephala, bar code, Cenorhabditis elegans, Chemistry, chimpanzees, chromosome number, chromosomes, Cruciferae, DNA, donkeys, Drosophila, Evolution, ferns, fruit flies, genes, genetics, homunculus, humans, idiogram, Junk DNA, Lego blocks, Ninth Symphony, nucleotides, Ophioglossum petiolatum, Parthenon, physics, plants, proteins, roundworm, Salvador Dalì, wheat, zebras
Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Source
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The Neanderthal Story Keeps Evolving (Even if Nothing Else Does)

arithmetic, DNA, egg cells, footprints, genetics, Homo sapiens, Human Origins and Anthropology, James Woodford, modern humans, Monte Clérigo, Neanderthals, New Scientist, obstetrics, paleontology, Patrick Eppenberger, PIEZO1, population disparities, sperm, stillbirths, Switzerland, University of Seville, University of Zurich
The University of Seville announces that Neanderthal footprints found along Portugal’s Algarve coast have led to unexpected insights about Neanderthal culture. Source
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, Evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, Race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism
Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Advanced Science, amino acids, bases, BioEssays, biologists, Chemistry, chromosomes, DNA, domains, exons, gene transcripts, genetics, genome function, genome regulation, geometric code, geometry, Intelligent Design, introns, James Tour, Junk DNA, meteorite, non-B DNA, OSIRIS-REx, packing, packing domains, structural shape, topologically associating domains, Yahoo News
Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Source
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