Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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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

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March 2023

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Author
Nathan Jacobson
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March 9, 2023
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Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence

Nathan Jacobson
March 9, 2023
Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
6
The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory. Read More ›
plankton
Photo credit: Brian Leander and Greg Gavelis, via EurekAlert!
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David Coppedge
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March 9, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Convergence? One-Celled Creature Has an Eye!

David Coppedge
March 9, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
7
“Convergent evolution” is not a process. It is a post-hoc observation based on evolutionary assumptions. Read More ›
Ota Benga
Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.
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March 8, 2023
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Evolution
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When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

Science & Culture
March 8, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution
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Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›
brain
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Michael Egnor
Date
March 8, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

Michael Egnor
March 8, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›
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Garden of the Gods
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March 7, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Summer Seminars on ID Are FREE but Application Deadline Is Near

Science & Culture
March 7, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The program is highly subsidized and intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and humanities. Read More ›
Sophia the Robot
Photo credit: Sophia the Robot with Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of United Nations, by UNCTAD, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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March 7, 2023
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Human Exceptionalism
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Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI

Science & Culture
March 7, 2023
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?” Read More ›
Darwin's finch
Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
March 7, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
Aristotle
Photo: Bust of Aristotle, Museo Nazionale Romano, by Nick Thompson, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
March 6, 2023
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Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Physics
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Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

Michael Egnor
March 6, 2023
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›

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