Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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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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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Denyse O’Leary

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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 12, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 11, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
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War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Denyse O’Leary
November 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution
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Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public.” Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 7, 2025
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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“First Multi-Purpose ‘Swiss Army Knives’ Made by Hominins”

Denyse O’Leary
November 7, 2025
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The tools date from about 2.75 through 2.44 million years ago (Pliocene). They underwent little change over the years, despite the changing environment. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 6, 2025
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Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Could Neanderthals Create Art, or Were They Not Evolved Enough?

Denyse O’Leary
November 6, 2025
Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Materialists have long sought to show that Neanderthals were less mentally evolved than modern humans. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2025
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 2, 2025
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Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
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When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2025
Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom
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Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 28, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

Denyse O’Leary
October 28, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 26, 2025
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Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
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Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2025
Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning
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When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 25, 2025
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Epistemology
Evolution
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Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2025
Epistemology, Evolution
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The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 24, 2025
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Bioethics
Medicine
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For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025
Bioethics, Medicine
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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

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