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

Category

Human Origins and Anthropology

Denisovan
Photo: Replica of a typical Denisovan fragment, by Thilo Parg, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Casey Luskin
Date
December 12, 2024
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA?

Casey Luskin
December 12, 2024
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens. Read More ›
God_the_Geometer
Image: Frontispiece of Bible Moralisée. “God the Geometer,"artist unknown, circa 1220–1230, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Martin Hilbert
Date
December 9, 2024
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Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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Natural Selection: The God that Failed

Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 9, 2024
Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
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The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 8, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

Denyse O’Leary
December 8, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Read More ›
Homo_neanderthalensis,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1225_1278
Photo credit: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 5, 2024
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Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

Denyse O’Leary
December 5, 2024
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Read More ›
cave-painting
Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 21, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Do We Need Language to Think?

Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
spacewalk
Photo credit: NASA/Frank Rubio.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
November 19, 2024
Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans

Andrew McDiarmid
November 19, 2024
Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
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Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Read More ›
chimp
Photo credit: Rishi Ragunathan, via Unsplash.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 9, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

Denyse O’Leary
November 9, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Jäger
Photo credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2024
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Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›
parallel-bars
Photo credit: West Point, U.S. Military Academy, via Flickr (cropped).
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Jonathan Wells
Date
October 5, 2024
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Anatomy
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Jonathan Wells
October 5, 2024
Anatomy, Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
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Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
Hobbit-man
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
October 4, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

Günter Bechly
October 4, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›

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