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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Origin of Life

Long road to LUCA
origin
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Date
July 3, 2017
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Science
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Origin-of-Life Researcher Admits, It’s “A Long, Long Way to LUCA”

Science & Culture
July 3, 2017
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Science
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Without intelligent design, how the "the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms" arose remains frustratingly elusive to theorists. Read More ›
free lunch
free lunch
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 2, 2017
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Materialist Origin-of-Life Solutions All Depend on a “Free Lunch”

David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2017
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Science
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This from Nature Reviews Chemistry caught our eye – an unexpectedly candid admission of how far origin-of-life research is from shedding real light on its subject. Read More ›
oracle soup
theistic evolution
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Author
Douglas Axe
Date
June 28, 2017
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Oracle Soup – Dialogue with a Theistic Evolutionist, Continued

Douglas Axe
June 28, 2017
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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We have no trouble rattling off any number of “conditions” that are relevant to the process of boiling alphabet soup. Read More ›
Scrabble
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
June 26, 2017
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

Brian Miller
June 26, 2017
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›
Blue Ice, South Greenland
thermodynamics
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Date
June 24, 2017
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Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios

Science & Culture
June 24, 2017
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
2
This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason. Read More ›
Eifuku chimneys
engine
White chimneys, Eifuku volcano, by NOAA, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
June 22, 2017
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue

Brian Miller
June 22, 2017
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors. Read More ›
tornado-funnel-cloud
origin of life
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
June 20, 2017
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information

Brian Miller
June 20, 2017
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life. Read More ›
cell
Thermodynamics
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
June 19, 2017
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Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Thermodynamics of the Origin of Life

Brian Miller
June 19, 2017
Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Popular articles on origin-of-life research often portray the field as constantly advancing and quickly converging on a purely materialistic explanation for the first cell. Read More ›
Texas A&M
Paul Nelson
Texas A&M University, by Stu Seeger [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
March 29, 2017
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Humpty Dumpty and the Origin of Life — Paul Nelson at Texas A&M University, Thursday, March 30

Science & Culture
March 29, 2017
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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Dr. Nelson will ask why a bacterial cell subjected to sterilizing sonication -- or death by sound -- will never come back to life. Ever. Read More ›
MIT campus
MIT campus
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
March 22, 2017
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Asking the Right Questions: My Visit to Brown University and MIT

Brian Miller
March 22, 2017
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics
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On a trip to Northeast campuses, I had the privilege of speaking to students about the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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