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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Denyse O’Leary

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 26, 2024
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Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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No. 7 Story of 2024: Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution

Denyse O’Leary
December 26, 2024
Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 22, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Physicists Want to Put Cosmic Design to the Test

Denyse O’Leary
December 22, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Their thesis is based on cosmic inflation theory and on the behavior of dark matter. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 14, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 10, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 10, 2024
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Deism and the Afterlife: Cosmologist Paul Davies Outlines His Views

Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Paul Davies argues that we’re not at the center of the attention of a God who is specifically concerned with us. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 8, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

Denyse O’Leary
December 8, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Read More ›
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Photo: Neanderthal tools, by Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 7, 2024
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Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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Who (or What) First Used Tools?

Denyse O’Leary
December 7, 2024
Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology
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It’s not stone tool use that is exclusive to humans; vultures can do that too. It’s the ability to form abstract ideas. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 5, 2024
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Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

Denyse O’Leary
December 5, 2024
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 1, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

Denyse O’Leary
December 1, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 24, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

Denyse O’Leary
November 24, 2024
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't. Read More ›

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