Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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

August 2023

Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter
Photo: Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY.
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August 12, 2023
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Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
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Is the Cosmos One Big Happy Accident?

Science & Culture
August 12, 2023
Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science
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Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards discusses distortions and outright falsehoods presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
crowd
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 11, 2023
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine
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Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›
Dawkins
Dawkins
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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 11, 2023
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Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
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After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results

David Klinghoffer
August 11, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy
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Richard Dawkins says he finds it “depressing” that people now think he’s “right-wing,” even a “right-wing extremist,” because he’s anti-woke. Read More ›
Trilobite_Redlichia
Photo: Trilobite Redlichia, Cambrian of China, Dlloyd via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
August 11, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›
pocket watch
Photo: Pocket watch, an image Wikipedia links with intelligent design because it’s meant to suggest an association with William Paley and the antiquated “watchmaker analogy”; by Hannes Grobe (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 10, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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Sanger Fought Disinformation on Intelligent Design “Tooth and Nail” — But Disinformation Won

David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2023
Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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"I fought ... tooth and nail on the question whether Wikipedia articles should dismiss [ID] and other nonstandard scientific theories without a hearing." Read More ›
DNA
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
August 10, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

Denyse O’Leary
August 10, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.
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Carl Linnaeus
Date
August 10, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces

Carl Linnaeus
August 10, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically. Read More ›
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informatics
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William A. Dembski
Date
August 9, 2023
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

William A. Dembski
August 9, 2023
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 9, 2023
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Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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Andrew Klavan, Casey Luskin: Displaced Authority and Progressive Censorship

Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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Klavan smells a rat when famous scientists like Richard Dawkins use displaced authority to make proclamations about science’s relationship with religion. Read More ›
Hallucigenia
Image: Hallucigenia, by Scorpion451, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
Date
August 9, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

David Coppedge
August 9, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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