Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
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
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Photo by Chris Morgan, © Discovery Institute
Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

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Evolution

Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Image: Kimberella quadrata, by MUSE / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).
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Günter Bechly
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September 4, 2020
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Evolution
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Kimberella — A Checkered History

Günter Bechly
September 4, 2020
Evolution
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John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. Read More ›
origin of life
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September 3, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?

Science and Culture
September 3, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” Read More ›
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September 3, 2020
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow

Science and Culture
September 3, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Nature’s prophet and Darwin's challenger, Wallace's effort was to restore nature to the “space-spirit hierarchy” it once knew. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Photo: Dorsal mold of Kimberella quadrata from the Ediacaran of Russia,
showing the cuticular dorsal shield with tubercular nodes and the tapered oral end; by Aleksey Nagovitsyn: Wikimedia, GNU FDL).
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Günter Bechly
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September 3, 2020
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Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020
Evolution
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If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›
The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto
The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto
Image: The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo, by Jacopo Tintoretto / Public domain
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Paul Nelson
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September 2, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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On the Swamidass Hypothesis — The Cheese Stands Alone

Paul Nelson
September 2, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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We have a lonely hypothesis standing by itself in the center of the room, which no one, including its author, will own as true. Read More ›
Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).
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September 2, 2020
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Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
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Dembski: “Recent Studies Have Vindicated Wallace” Over Darwin

Science and Culture
September 2, 2020
Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design
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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, by London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company (active 1855-1922) / Public domain.
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August 31, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
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Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

Science and Culture
August 31, 2020
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics
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On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›
Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson
Photo: Paul Nelson, by Nathan Jacobson.
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David Klinghoffer
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August 28, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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I Beg Your Pardon? More on “Mainstream Science”

David Klinghoffer
August 28, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Does philosopher of biology Paul Nelson reject “mainstream science”? Of course he does not. Read More ›
Pamela Newkirk
Pamela Newkirk
Photo: Pamela Newkirk in a scene from Human Zoos.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 28, 2020
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Bioethics
Evolution
Science Reporting
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Journalist Finds a “Cover-Up” by the Bronx Zoo

David Klinghoffer
August 28, 2020
Bioethics, Evolution, Science Reporting
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It wasn’t until they were forced by events that the Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted this black life mattered. Read More ›
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Agamous generation of red-pea gall of gall wasp Cynips divisa on oak leaf. Photograph by W-E L (14 June 2020 in Cologne).
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
August 28, 2020
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Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Plant Galls, Evolution, and Intelligent Design

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
August 28, 2020
Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences
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Complex structures of thousands of species have been formed for the exclusive good of other species, annihilating Darwin’s theory on his own terms. Read More ›

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