Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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Michael Denton

Curiosity rover on Mars
Curiosity rover on Mars
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Humans Were Designed to Harness Fire

Of all the discoveries made on mankind’s long march to civilization, there was one primal discovery that made the realization of all else possible. Read More ›
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Remembering Phil Johnson: Visiting San Fran Will Never Be the Same

It pleased me to find out that his reading of my book was one of the major influences that motivated him to take up the fight. Read More ›
Parker Solar Probe
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, via NASA. 

NASA’s Parker Probe Kisses the Sun — And Rightly So

It’s thanks only to the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of nature that we live in a universe awash in radiation from this tiny swath of the electromagnetic spectrum — the life-permitting swath. Read More ›
mouse limb and fin ray
Image: Mouse limb and fin ray, by Shubin Laboratory, University of Chicago Medical Center, via EurekAlert.

Genetic Similarities Between Fins and Limbs — Evidence for Evolution, Maybe, but Not for Darwinism

My assessment is this: There never were any transitional forms making both dermal bone and endochondral bone. Read More ›

A Reasonable, but Incomplete, Account of How Humans Mastered Fire

The coincidences are so extraordinary that the inference to design is surely worthy of serious consideration. Read More ›
Bearded dragons
Photo: Bearded dragons, by Steve Jurvetson (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

On the Diversification of Fur, Feathers, and Scales, the Mystery Remains

Reporting in Science Advances, researchers studied a lizard, a bearded dragon, in which scales failed to develop. Read More ›
Noam Chomsky
Photo: Noam Chomsky, by Asadr1337, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Human Language: Noam Chomsky, Universal Grammar, and Natural Selection

There is no doubt that a unique deep structure underlies the languages of all members of our species, modern Homo sapiens. Read More ›

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