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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Evolution

cells
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
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
Date
August 2, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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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
Date
August 1, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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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
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David Coppedge
Date
July 31, 2023
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Evolution
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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Author
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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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

Science & 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 ›
hominin tibia
Photo: Hominin tibia KNM-ER 741, after Fig. 1 in Pobiner et al. 2023, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 28, 2023
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news. Read More ›
soul
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Stephen C. Meyer
Date
July 27, 2023
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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What Is Primary: Mind or Matter? 

Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›
Flower display
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Eric Hedin
Date
July 27, 2023
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Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Intelligent Design in Color Vision — A Gift to Us

Eric Hedin
July 27, 2023
Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics
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How different our perception of reality would be if our brains processed visual signals from the optical nerve as only varying shades of beige or pink or grey! Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, by Alfienoakes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 26, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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On Origin of Life, Stephen Meyer and James Tour Debunk Researcher Lee Cronin’s Claims

Andrew McDiarmid
July 26, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Have prebiotic chemists made any progress on the sequence specificity problem? None whatsoever, says Dr. Tour. Read More ›

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