Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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 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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Physical Sciences

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 18, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Why the “Universe from Nothing” Model Points to Intelligent Design

Andrew McDiarmid
April 18, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Did our universe come from nothing, as some physicists have proposed? This episode is built around a suggestion I recently received from a listener. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 8, 2025
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences

Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin

Andrew McDiarmid
April 8, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
3
How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
Date
April 1, 2025
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

Eric Hedin
April 1, 2025
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Matter is moved by matter, and to a lesser extent, by light. Let’s look into that assertion from the point of view of physics. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
March 15, 2025
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

Andrew McDiarmid
March 15, 2025
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›
cosmos
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David Klinghoffer
Date
March 5, 2025
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
2
Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
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Granville Sewell
Date
February 27, 2025
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Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design” 

Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025
Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›
Hubble
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Peter Biles
Date
February 25, 2025
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Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Technology
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Pointing to Design, Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational

Peter Biles
February 25, 2025
Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences, Technology
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He kicks off the book by talking about the evident design in nature and the fine-tuning of the universe. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 18, 2025
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Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
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Can Science Find God? Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer

Andrew McDiarmid
February 18, 2025
Faith & Science, Physical Sciences
3
Humans seem to be drawn in a certain direction toward truth and beauty. Is that an accident of nature? Read More ›
Big Bang
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 15, 2025
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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The Singularity that Atheists Try To Evade

Andrew McDiarmid
February 15, 2025
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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The singularity isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the well-supported singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
Bayes'-Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
February 11, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›

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