Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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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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Jonathan Witt

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Paul Nelson

crab pincers
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Paul Nelson
Date
November 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Science
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Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

Paul Nelson
November 3, 2022
Intelligent Design, Science
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When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›
Hexokinase
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Paul Nelson
Date
September 29, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
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Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

Paul Nelson
September 29, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Science
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The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
Carl Sagan
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Paul Nelson
Date
June 14, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

Paul Nelson
June 14, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›
forest for the trees
Nathan Lents
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Mike Keas
Date
May 27, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
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Troubles with the Tree of Life

Mike Keas and Paul Nelson
May 27, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science
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Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
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Paul Nelson
Date
April 5, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

Paul Nelson
April 5, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
10
Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›
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Paul Nelson
Date
January 21, 2022
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

Paul Nelson
January 21, 2022
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›
Arabidopsis thaliana
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Paul Nelson
Date
January 14, 2022
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Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Plant Biologist: “Mutation Is Very Non-Random”

Paul Nelson
January 14, 2022
Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Many people I know in the ID community are strongly interested in rethinking mutation, understanding it as a designed or regulated process. Read More ›
Richard Lewontin
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Paul Nelson
Date
July 6, 2021
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Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
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Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021
Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science
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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›
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Paul Nelson
Date
June 30, 2021
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Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Just Down the Street from ID: “Molecular Assembly Index”

Paul Nelson
June 30, 2021
Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics
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"The selection of one such possibility out of the combinatorically large number of possibilities is a process that requires information." Read More ›
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University of Chicago
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Paul Nelson
Date
June 18, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
History of Science
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The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

Paul Nelson
June 18, 2021
Biology, Evolution, History of Science
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The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Read More ›

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