Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Evolution

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David Klinghoffer
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May 6, 2025
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“Recant!” A Sternberg Story that (Almost) Got Away

David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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The priest cited to Sternberg the experience of Greeks when they lived under harsh Turkish rule. Read More ›
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May 5, 2025
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Event, May 13: The Heavens Declare

Science & Culture
May 5, 2025
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Paul Nelson and Brian DeVries will give special attention to how humans are able to detect design in nature. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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May 5, 2025
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Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025
Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning
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All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›
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May 5, 2025
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Flannery: What Werner Heisenberg Foresaw

Science & Culture
May 5, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics
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“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact these smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense." Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
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May 5, 2025
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Communication, in Human Life and Beyond: An Irreducibly Complex Design

Eric Hedin
May 5, 2025
Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Communication saturates the animal kingdom in many forms. At the cellular level, communication forms an integral part of sustaining physical being. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
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May 4, 2025
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“If That’s True, It Changes Everything”: David Klinghoffer Reads from Plato’s Revenge

Andrew McDiarmid
May 4, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
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As David Klinghoffer relates in the Introduction, Richard Sternberg’s work is set to change the predominant conception of the genome. Read More ›
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May 2, 2025
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In the Conventional Genetic Paradigm, “Something Is Missing, Something Big”

Science & Culture
May 2, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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"David Klinghoffer masterfully chronicles Richard Sternberg’s decades-long search to fill the void articulated by Robert Rosen." Read More ›
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May 2, 2025
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Can We Credit Human Creativity to Blind Evolution?

Science & Culture
May 2, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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The genius of the human mind requires an external, intelligent source beyond the material world. Read More ›
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William A. Dembski
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May 1, 2025
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The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

William A. Dembski
May 1, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science
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Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
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May 1, 2025
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Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer

Andrew McDiarmid
May 1, 2025
Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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We are now overdue for a profound revolution in science, one you’ve probably heard very little about. Read More ›

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