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 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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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 21, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Do We Need Language to Think?

Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 9, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

Denyse O’Leary
November 9, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2024
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Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 26, 2024
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2024
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›
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Photo: Amur tiger, by Anil Öztas, FALCC-BY-NC-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 20, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Do Animals Really “Take Revenge”?

Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2024
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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The true tale of an Amur tiger hunting down and killing his hunter in 1997 is among the best attested of these stories. Read More ›
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Image: An illustration of a Maori from the novel The Kip Brother, by Jules Verne, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 8, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Freedom
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After Dawkins Is Canceled, What Comes Next?

Denyse O’Leary
October 8, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Freedom
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Richard Dawkins recently objected to the idea that Māori myths should be taught in science class alongside the Big Bang. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 7, 2024
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Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question

Denyse O’Leary
October 7, 2024
Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›
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Photo: A sample of RNA, by Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 6, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Linguistics
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Denyse O’Leary
October 6, 2024
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Linguistics
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Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 1, 2024
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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Scientists Ask: Does the Soul Survive Death?

Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2024
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
5
Gradually, medical findings about what happens to the mind around the time of death are undermining assumptions that the soul dies with the body. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 30, 2024
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Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
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Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024
Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning
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It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›

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