Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
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

crab pincers
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 11, 2023
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Life Sciences
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Philosophy
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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
Ouroboros
Image: Ouroboros, the snake that consumes its own tail, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 7, 2023
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Intelligent Design
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Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It

Denyse O’Leary
December 7, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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No matter what terminology is chosen, the materialist project always and necessarily amounts to eliminating the mind. Read More ›
covid
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 3, 2023
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Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
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Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?

Denyse O’Leary
December 3, 2023
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting
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People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse? Read More ›
honey bee
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 26, 2023
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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2023
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›
octopus eye
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 8, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?

Denyse O’Leary
November 8, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species. Read More ›
puppet
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 7, 2023
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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Could Evolution Give Us Free Will?

Denyse O’Leary
November 7, 2023
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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From one corner we learn that free will could possibly exist, provided that it is materialized or, if you like “evolutionized.” Read More ›
Qafzeh
Photo: A skull from the Qafzeh Cave, by Wapondaponda, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 2, 2023
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Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
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When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2023
Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›
consciousness
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Denyse O’Leary
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October 31, 2023
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Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

Denyse O’Leary
October 31, 2023
Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›
free will
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Denyse O’Leary
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October 24, 2023
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism

Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either. Read More ›
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life
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Denyse O’Leary
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October 20, 2023
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Medicine
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Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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