Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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David Berlinski
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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
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
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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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Denyse O’Leary

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 11, 2018
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Sociology
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Sociologist Steve Fuller: How ID Foxes Can Beat the Darwinian Lions 

Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2018
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Sociology
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University of Warwick sociologist Steve Fuller is one of the few researchers in his field who knows much about intelligent design and the controversy it ignites. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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June 11, 2018
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Why Argue with Intelligent Design? Offer Drive-By Psychotherapy Instead!

Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2018
Biology, Intelligent Design
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Avoiding serious discussion of design in nature (and of many other questions) fills a need. Read More ›
Jordan-Peterson
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
February 15, 2018
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Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
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Jordan Peterson — Do the Stitches Hold?

Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2018
Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Psychology, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences
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The modern heretic and YouTube sensation seeks to meld clinical and evolutionary psychology with Jung, Nietzsche, and the Bible. Read More ›
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naturalism
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 20, 2017
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help

Denyse O’Leary
December 20, 2017
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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A New Yorker obit for naturalist atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor noted Fodor’s dismissal of the “natural selection” cult but, surprisingly, did not offer polite contempt. Read More ›
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naturalism
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 4, 2017
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Evolution
Physical Sciences
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Mock at Your Peril! Naturalism Is a Jealous Fraud

Denyse O’Leary
December 4, 2017
Evolution, Physical Sciences
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It’s not just that media-darling disciplines ruled by naturalism fail the facts. They fail at precisely the points where they should succeed if naturalism were true. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 17, 2017
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
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How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion 

Denyse O’Leary
November 17, 2017
Evolution, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning
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No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›
March for Science
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 1, 2017
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Evolution
Physical Sciences
Science
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Can Science Survive Long in a Post-Modern World?

Denyse O’Leary
November 1, 2017
Evolution, Physical Sciences, Science
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It’s not clear. Metaphysical naturalism insists that there is no design in nature and that nature is all there is. Read More ›
naturalism
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 17, 2017
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Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is 

Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2017
Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 28, 2017
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Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
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Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself   

Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2017
Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind
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“It’s quite plausible”  is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything. Read More ›
Monoceros
multiverse
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 7, 2017
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Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
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Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?

Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2017
Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science
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They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too. Read More ›

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