Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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 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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Evolution

origami crane
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August 5, 2023
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Douglas Axe: We Have an Eye For Detecting Design

Science and Culture
August 5, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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“Either you’re with us and on board on these issues or you are anti-science. That is a very unhelpful position for scientists to be taking.” Read More ›
Leonhard Euler
Image: Leonhard Euler, by Emanuel Handmann, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
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August 4, 2023
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Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

David Coppedge
August 4, 2023
Evolution, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind
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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Read More ›
Megasiphon thylakos
Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
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August 4, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›
ichneumon wasp
Photo: An ichneumon wasp, aka Darwin wasp, by Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Paul Nelson
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August 3, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
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A Debate on the “Randomness” of Mutation 

Paul Nelson
August 3, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Metaphysics
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The historical wellspring of randomness in evolutionary theory is Darwin’s own insistence on “chance” at the causal foundations of life. Read More ›
cells
Image credit: Arek Socha via Pixabay.
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Andrew McDiarmid
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August 2, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Stephen Meyer: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Origin of Life

Andrew McDiarmid
August 2, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Have scientists made life in a laboratory? Two-thirds of the public think the answer is yes. Read More ›
zebra
Photo credit: Taylor Sondgeroth via Unsplash.
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David Coppedge
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August 2, 2023
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In Life, Checkpoints and Error Correction Defy Darwinian Explanations

David Coppedge
August 2, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Living cells employ forward-thinking and backward-thinking strategies. Both strategies require planning outside the immediate situation. Read More ›
fuse
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David Coppedge
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August 1, 2023
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Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

David Coppedge
August 1, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. Read More ›
Utah
Photo credit: David Coppedge.
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David Coppedge
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July 31, 2023
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Intelligent Design
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In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

David Coppedge
July 31, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›
Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum
Photo: Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum, a peace lily, by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 30, 2023
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Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023
Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›
Douglas-Axe
Photo: Douglas Axe at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.
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July 29, 2023
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Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

Science and Culture
July 29, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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“The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise?” Read More ›

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