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
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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Bruce Gordon
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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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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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Social Sciences

Michael-Egnor
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Photo: Professor Michael Egnor, Stony Brook University, in a scene from Science Uprising.
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Date
May 30, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

Science & Culture
May 30, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›
Yuval-Noah-Harari
Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by CEU / Daniel Vegel, via Flickr (cropped).
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 18, 2025
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Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
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Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”

David Klinghoffer
May 18, 2025
Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology
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I’ve never heard evolution and nihilism connected so clearly and concisely, and the implications vastly exceed sexuality. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jimmy Ofisia on Unsplash.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 26, 2025
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Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Psychology
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John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

Andrew McDiarmid
April 26, 2025
Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Psychology
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Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution has drained meaning from nature. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
April 22, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Political Science
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Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Political Science
3
There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Paul van de Velde, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
April 11, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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From Seizures, a Healthy Respect for the Brain

Denyse O’Leary
April 11, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
4
Webb Wright’s roundup of historical approaches to epilepsy is not very insightful, unfortunately. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
April 9, 2025
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Medicine
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
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Dissent Becomes a Mental Illness

Denyse O’Leary
April 9, 2025
Medicine, Psychology, Scientific Freedom
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A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints. Read More ›
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3D rendering of a dark cell at night
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 21, 2025
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Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
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Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025
Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology
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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Michel Grolet via Unsplash.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 4, 2025
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
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Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning
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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
February 24, 2025
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Psychology
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A Useful Christian: John West on Francis Collins and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

David Klinghoffer
February 24, 2025
Bioethics, Faith & Science, Psychology
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There are Stockholm syndrome Jews as well — you’ll see them parading with “anti-Zionist” groups on campus and in the street. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of "Mrs. Ples," by José Braga; Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 23, 2025
Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Genetics
Geology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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A Better Explanation for Human Origins

Andrew McDiarmid
February 23, 2025
Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics, Geology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin describes his experiences in South Africa while earning a PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg. Read More ›

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