Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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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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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Cosmology

Omega=Centauri
Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.
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Eric Hedin
Date
January 13, 2025
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Astronomy
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Dark Matter and Intelligent Design: A Prediction

Eric Hedin
January 13, 2025
Astronomy, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Let’s look at some of the remarkable features of dark matter, already discovered by observations in astronomy and cosmology. Read More ›
ngc2264
Photo credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
January 6, 2025
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Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2025
Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Read More ›
Meyer-Rogan
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 29, 2024
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Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Watch: Steve Meyer and Joe Rogan, Full Podcast Episode Now on YouTube

David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2024
Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
2
Whatever your political leanings, I think you’ll get a kick out of seeing philosopher of science Stephen Meyer in the same seat where Donald Trump sat recently. Read More ›
black hole
Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
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Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
September 12, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
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Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 12, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology
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I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
Cloudscape_Over_the_Philippine_Sea
Photo credit: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
September 5, 2024
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Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024
Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
September 4, 2024
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2024
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Read More ›
Aurora
Photo: Aurora as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA/Shane Kimbrough.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 3, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›
rainbow
Photo credit: Ted.ns, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
August 27, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Beauty and Our Privileged Planet

Guillermo Gonzalez
August 27, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science. Read More ›
Nicolaus_Copernicus_Monument_in_Toruń_(Thorn)
Photo: Copernicus, by Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 26, 2024
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
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Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance

David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2024
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences
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It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it. Read More ›
Saturn
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 1, 2024
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Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

Andrew McDiarmid
August 1, 2024
Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Melissa Cain Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. Read More ›

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