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 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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Culture

chimp
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 17, 2023
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Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2023
Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute/J. Lee; Processing: NASA/Catholic University of America/Gladys Kober.
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Author
Eric Hedin
Date
October 16, 2023
Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Eric Hedin
October 16, 2023
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
pig
Photo credit: Julian Dutton via Unsplash.
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 15, 2023
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine
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A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
October 14, 2023
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Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
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Live Not by Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

Science and Culture
October 14, 2023
Bioethics, Scientific Freedom
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When one person stands up to lies or oppression, others can become emboldened to do the same. Read More ›
Tongan island
Photo credit: Miyasige Tosikazu, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 12, 2023
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution
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What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›
consciousness
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
October 11, 2023
Categories
Biology
Engineering
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

Andrew McDiarmid
October 11, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Read More ›
Middle East from space
Photo credit: Stuart Rankin, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Eric Hedin
Date
October 11, 2023
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

Eric Hedin
October 11, 2023
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›
near-death experience
Photo credit: Jr Korpa via Unsplash.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 10, 2023
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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

Denyse O’Leary
October 10, 2023
Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo: A femur, by John Hawks, Marina Elliott, Peter Schmid, Steven E. Churchill, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Eric M. Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Heather M. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, Lucas K. Delezene, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Tracy L. Kivell, Myra F. Laird, Gaokgatlhe Tawane, Jeremy M. DeSilva, Shara E. Bailey, Juliet K. Brophy, Marc R. Meyer, Matthew M. Skinner, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caroline VanSickle, Christopher S. Walker, Timothy L. Campbell, Brian Kuhn, Ashley Kruger, Steven Tucker, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Rick Hunter, Hannah Morris, Becca Peixotto, Maropeng Ramalepa, Dirk van Rooyen, Mathabela Tsikoane, Pedro Boshoff, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Lee R. Berger, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
October 9, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

Andrew McDiarmid
October 9, 2023
Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology
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They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Read More ›
covid
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 8, 2023
Categories
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
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How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

Denyse O’Leary
October 8, 2023
Environment & Climate, Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom
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Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›

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