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

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Origin of Life

Taking Leave of Darwin
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January 30, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Neil Thomas: Darwin, Aquinas, and the Origin of Life

Science and Culture
January 30, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Thomas and radio host Hank Hanegraaff discuss the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, and more. Read More ›
dice
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January 25, 2022
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Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design

Science and Culture
January 25, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
iron
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January 25, 2022
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Biology
Geophysics
Origin of Life
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No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

Science and Culture
January 25, 2022
Biology, Geophysics, Origin of Life, Rare Earth
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As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›
Home_made_muffins
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Paul Nelson
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January 21, 2022
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Biology
Chemistry
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Origin of Life
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Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

Paul Nelson
January 21, 2022
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›
chemistry flasks
Photo: Chemistry flasks, by David Mulder via Flickr (cropped).
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January 6, 2022
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Evolution
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A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

Science and Culture
January 6, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›
tornado
Photo: Photo: A tornado, near Elie, Manitoba, Canada, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Granville Sewell
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January 4, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
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The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

Granville Sewell
January 4, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›
DNA
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Brian Miller
Date
December 14, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates his Faith-Based Approach to Science  

Brian Miller
December 14, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Members of the evolutionary community believe that philosophical commitments supersede evidence and reason. Read More ›
DNA
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Brian Miller
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December 13, 2021
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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias

Brian Miller
December 13, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid. Read More ›
DNA
intelligent design
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David Klinghoffer
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December 2, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
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Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds

David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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"How can we determine whether a 10-digit number is a random number or a specified telephone number to call your mother?" Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Rob Stadler
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November 30, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
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Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Read More ›

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