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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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
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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
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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Social Sciences

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Eric Hedin
Date
January 28, 2025
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Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
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What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025
Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›
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David Coppedge
Date
January 22, 2025
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Archaeology
Astronomy
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Planetology
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Intelligent Design in Action: Mars Archaeology

David Coppedge
January 22, 2025
Archaeology, Astronomy, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Planetology
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A new scientific research field began when intelligently designed artifacts started appearing on a lifeless planet. Read More ›
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Emily Reeves
Date
January 13, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
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The End of the Machine Metaphor? 

Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science
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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›
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January 9, 2025
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Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Neanderthals May Be “Same Species” As Us

Science & Culture
January 9, 2025
Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Using coalescence analyses and molecular clock assessments, the researchers reconstructed a timeline of genetic events. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 8, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

Denyse O’Leary
December 8, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Read More ›
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December 4, 2024
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Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
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Masculinity and Social Darwinism: New Course with Nancy Pearcey

Science & Culture
December 4, 2024
Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology
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Intellectuals have been creating the secular script for masculinity for a long time. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 21, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Do We Need Language to Think?

Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2024
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Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›
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William A. Dembski
Date
October 22, 2024
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Bioethics
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models

William A. Dembski
October 22, 2024
Bioethics, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 6, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Linguistics
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Denyse O’Leary
October 6, 2024
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Linguistics
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Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›

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