Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
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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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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
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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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Origin of Life

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
November 12, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Dembski and Tour: Why Chance Doesn’t Have a Chance

Andrew McDiarmid
November 12, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Proponents of an evolutionary explanation for life and the universe credit natural processes with a seemingly unlimited amount of time and boundless creativity. Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Rob Stadler
Date
November 8, 2023
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Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
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New Long Story Short Video Examines Information and the Origin of Life

Rob Stadler
November 8, 2023
Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics
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Does the required information for life come from purely natural processes, or from an intelligent mind?  Read More ›
Long Story Short
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David Klinghoffer
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November 7, 2023
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Evolution
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Origin of Life
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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

David Klinghoffer
November 7, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Read More ›
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Brian Miller
Date
October 31, 2023
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Biology
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Evolution
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Origin of Life
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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

Brian Miller
October 31, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
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Tova Levengood
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October 19, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

Tova Levengood
October 19, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›
James Tour
origin of life
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 12, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Meyer, Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life!”

David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Rice University chemist James Tour is still on a roll in showing up the empty boasts of origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›
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embryonic development
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
September 28, 2023
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
September 27, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution

David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology
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Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 27, 2023
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Evolution
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Origin of Life
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Another Headache for the RNA World Theory

Andrew McDiarmid
September 27, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate. Read More ›
primordial soup
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William A. Dembski
Date
September 20, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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