Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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Brian Miller

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It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›
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Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›
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Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›
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Postcard from North Carolina: College Students Respond to Scientific Evidence for a Creator

Skepticism should be a last resort rather than a starting point. If truth is knowable, we should pursue it as our highest priority. Read More ›
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›
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Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Read More ›
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Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

Dr. Burgess's own research proved that knee joint geometry and supporting structures are optimally designed to achieve multiple objectives. Read More ›
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Year in Review: Demonstrating the Power of the Intelligent Design Framework in Biology

Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Read More ›

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