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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Planetology

alien life
alien life
Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Paul Nelson
Date
March 30, 2023
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Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
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Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism 

Paul Nelson
March 30, 2023
Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology
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Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›
Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.
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Author
Rob Sheldon
Date
March 10, 2023
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Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
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What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023
Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology
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The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
NGC 6530
Photo: Open cluster NGC 6530, by Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç.
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January 8, 2023
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Cosmology
Physical Sciences
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Science
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Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

Science & Culture
January 8, 2023
Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science
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The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
DNA
Photo credit: National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
November 14, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Planetology
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Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?

Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Planetology
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University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.” Read More ›
galaxy IC 5332
Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).
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David Klinghoffer
Date
September 28, 2022
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Astronomy
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
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On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

David Klinghoffer
September 28, 2022
Astronomy, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science
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Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.
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Rob Sheldon
Date
September 19, 2022
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Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
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Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

Rob Sheldon
September 19, 2022
Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science
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In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
exoplanet
Image credit: NASA Universe, via Flicker (cropped).
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
August 30, 2022
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Planetology
Rare Earth
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The Silence of the Space Aliens

David Coppedge
August 30, 2022
Planetology, Rare Earth
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The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›
Curiosity rover
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
August 29, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
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Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

David Coppedge
August 29, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth
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It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 19, 2022
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
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Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

David Klinghoffer
July 19, 2022
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology
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I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›
Europa
Photo credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
June 1, 2022
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Evolution
Physical Sciences
Planetology
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Why Scientists Think There Could Be Life on Europa

Science & Culture
June 1, 2022
Evolution, Physical Sciences, Planetology
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Jupiter’s moon Europa, somewhat smaller than Earth’s moon, may have surface water and organic chemicals, researchers say. Read More ›

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