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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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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Granville Sewell

Charles-Darwin
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Granville Sewell
Date
October 2, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
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The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

Granville Sewell
October 2, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics
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Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes. Read More ›
mathematics
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Granville Sewell
Date
August 20, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Physics
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On Evolution, Mathematicians Need Not Be Silent

Granville Sewell
August 20, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics
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"I know a good many mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists who, like me, are appalled [by] Darwin's explanation for the development of life." Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Granville Sewell
Date
July 9, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Granville Sewell
July 9, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
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Granville Sewell
Date
July 1, 2024
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

Granville Sewell
July 1, 2024
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Granville Sewell
Date
June 19, 2024
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Faith & Science
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Novel for Young Adults Highlights the Problem of Pain

Granville Sewell
June 19, 2024
Faith & Science, Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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For most people, the main issue in the debate pitting design versus Darwinism is not scientific, but the problem of pain. Read More ›
Big Bang
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Granville Sewell
Date
May 31, 2024
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Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
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Physics
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The Big Bang Simplified

Granville Sewell
May 31, 2024
Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Read More ›
Buzz-Aldrin
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Granville Sewell
Date
March 1, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology
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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›
Roger Penrose
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Granville Sewell
Date
December 15, 2023
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Physics
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Granville Sewell
December 15, 2023
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Omega=Centauri
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
December 5, 2023
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Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

Granville Sewell
December 5, 2023
Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all. Read More ›
schrodinger
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Granville Sewell
Date
August 29, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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How the Supernatural Entered Science

Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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I recently came across a nice little video which seems to prove that π = 0. Each step seems reasonable. Read More ›

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