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
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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
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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
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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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Denyse O’Leary

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
April 2, 2025
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
April 1, 2025
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
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How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

Denyse O’Leary
April 1, 2025
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology
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Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 28, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

Denyse O’Leary
March 28, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 26, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
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On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

Denyse O’Leary
March 26, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom
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Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 24, 2025
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
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Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

Denyse O’Leary
March 24, 2025
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology
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Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 21, 2025
Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 21, 2025
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Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
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Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025
Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology
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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 6, 2025
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
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Stockholm Syndrome: Francis Collins and the Unborn

Denyse O’Leary
March 6, 2025
Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine
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Collins is a role model for aspiring young Christians, right? John West says, not so fast. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 4, 2025
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
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Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning
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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
February 19, 2025
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Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind”

Denyse O’Leary
February 19, 2025
Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait? Read More ›

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