Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Month

January 2023

Earthrise
Earth
Photo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image (2015), by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University [Public domain].
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January 10, 2023
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Physical Sciences
Science
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Bijan Nemati on Another Big Space Telescope, and Our Privileged Planet

Science & Culture
January 10, 2023
Physical Sciences, Science
1
Nemati describes how the instrument his company is building for the telescope is designed to aid in the search for earth-like planets beyond our solar system. Read More ›
La Pasiega Cave
Photo: La Pasiega Cave, by Don Hitchcock, donsmaps.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 10, 2023
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
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Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness

Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science
5
London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology. Read More ›
Pope_Benedict_XVI
Photo credit: Marek.69 talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jonathan Witt
Date
January 9, 2023
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Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
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In Pope Benedict XVI, Science Had a Friend and Neo-Darwinism a Foe

Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2023
Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting
6
That Benedict meant to implicate neo-Darwinism in its flight from evidence is not mere wishful thinking on the part of the design community. Read More ›
Pope Benedict XVI
Photo credit: Catholic Church England and Wales, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Bruce Chapman
Date
January 9, 2023
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

Bruce Chapman
January 9, 2023
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning
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“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution,” he said. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God.” Read More ›
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
January 9, 2023
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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
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Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?

David Coppedge
January 9, 2023
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science
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Its summer of dominance after neo-Darwinism arose and conquered every field of biology led to an autumn of colorful just-so stories, and now a Narnian rule. Read More ›
NGC 6530
Photo: Open cluster NGC 6530, by Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç.
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January 8, 2023
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Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
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Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

Science & Culture
January 8, 2023
Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science
1
The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
COVID-19
COVID-19
Image: COVID-19, by CDC, via Unsplash.
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Date
January 7, 2023
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Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Scientific Freedom
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Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Science & Culture
January 7, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine, Science, Scientific Freedom
1
Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Read More ›
cat and mouse
Photo credit: Mark Sardella, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 6, 2023
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

Denyse O’Leary
January 6, 2023
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Read More ›
full moon
Photo credit: Ganapathy Kumar via Unsplash.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
January 6, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Animals Tune Behavior by  Lunar Cycle; but How?

David Coppedge
January 6, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle. Read More ›
Afrosoricida
Photo: Diamantochloris inconcessus, Eocene, Namibia, combined after Pickford 2018 figs. 1 and 3, fair use.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
January 6, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology, Science
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Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? Read More ›

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