Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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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
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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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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Michael Egnor

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Michael Egnor
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August 28, 2017
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Faith & Science
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Demons and Multiverses

Michael Egnor
August 28, 2017
Faith & Science, Physical Sciences
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Yale clinical neurologist Dr. Steven Novella posted recently about Dr. Richard Gallagher, a psychiatrist trained at Yale who provides psychiatric consultation services to the Catholic Church. Read More ›
Max Delbrück
Aristotle
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Michael Egnor
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August 25, 2017
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Intelligent Design
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DNA, Information, and Aristotle’s Nobel Prize

Michael Egnor
August 25, 2017
Intelligent Design
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Max Delbrück (1906-1981) was a biophysicist and Nobel laureate who made seminal discoveries in the DNA-based replication of viruses. Read More ›
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nature
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Michael Egnor
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August 9, 2017
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How Is Purpose Related to Teleology in Nature?

Michael Egnor
August 9, 2017
Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Materialist philosopher Joseph Carter denies the existence of teleology in nature, but he is mistaken. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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August 9, 2017
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Bioethics
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Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People

Michael Egnor
August 9, 2017
Bioethics, Medicine
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This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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August 8, 2017
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Biology
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Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…

Michael Egnor
August 8, 2017
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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As I noted yesterday, Joseph Carter wrote a fatuous essay in which he denies purpose in the universe and does an amusing dance around the implications that follow. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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August 7, 2017
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Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher

Michael Egnor
August 7, 2017
Philosophy, Physical Sciences
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Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends. Read More ›
Sean Carroll
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Michael Egnor
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August 2, 2017
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Cosmology
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Atheist Physicist Sean Carroll: An Infinite Number of Universes Is More Plausible Than God

Michael Egnor
August 2, 2017
Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The Many Worlds Interpretation is sort of an extension of the Darwinian creation myth, applied to cosmology. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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July 31, 2017
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Cosmology
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Is Sean Carroll a Boltzmann Brain?

Michael Egnor
July 31, 2017
Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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Carroll, a cosmologist and physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology at Caltech, is highly regarded by the New Atheist community. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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July 30, 2017
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What Is Form?

Michael Egnor
July 30, 2017
Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science. Read More ›

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