Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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 Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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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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Carl Linnaeus
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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

May 2024

bean plant
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 9, 2024
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Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
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Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024
Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences
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We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›
Bacillus subtilis
Image: Bacillus subtilis, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by WMrapids, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Emily Reeves
Date
May 9, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Antibiotic Resistance: An Example of Chance and Necessity, or Programming?

Emily Reeves
May 9, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Antibiotic resistance is an icon of observable evolution; however, the extent to which chance mutations underpin the phenomenon remains uncertain. Read More ›
bacteria
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Brian Miller
Date
May 9, 2024
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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis

Brian Miller
May 9, 2024
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems. Read More ›
red blood cells
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
May 8, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System

Brian Miller
May 8, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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The authors also explain how the standard evolutionary framework misdirected earlier researchers. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 8, 2024
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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Astounding: The Role of Motor Proteins in Cell Division

Jonathan McLatchie
May 8, 2024
Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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A crucial aspect of mitosis is the movement of chromosomes — initially the alignment of as paired sister chromatids during prometaphase and metaphase. Read More ›
guppies
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Emily Reeves
Date
May 8, 2024
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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Predictions for the Guppy from the Engineering/Design Model

Emily Reeves
May 8, 2024
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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An engineering model would predict that guppies are designed with operational parameters for different traits, which are set by overarching design logic. Read More ›
Marais chemistry course
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 7, 2024
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Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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Now Registering: High School Chemistry with an ID Twist

Andrew McDiarmid
May 7, 2024
Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Science Education
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But isn’t learning online a lonely experience? It can be, but not this class! Discovery Institute Academy’s High School Chemistry course is synchronous. Read More ›
Einstein-and-Lemaître
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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Date
May 7, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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When Einstein Met Lemaître

Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 7, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe. Read More ›
Guppy_Poecilia_reticulata
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Emily Reeves
Date
May 7, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?

Emily Reeves
May 7, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›
Dawkins expelled
Photo credit: Richard Dawkins, by Magnus Norden (151212035) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 6, 2024
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
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Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›

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