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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Paleontology

Eozoon
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
July 21, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›
Cloudina
Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 14, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›
trilobite
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›
ravens
Photo: Common ravens, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 10, 2023
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Our Ancestors Are Evolving, Just to Keep Up!

Denyse O’Leary
July 10, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Negative biases about our forebears have long been part of science, education, and popular culture. Why? Read More ›
Bhimbetka
Photo: <I>Dickinsonia</I>-like pseuodofossil, Bhimbetka cave, Retallack et al. 2021, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 7, 2023
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Geology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023
Geology, Paleontology
6
The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›
Homo rudolfensis
Photo credit: Gunnar Creutz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 30, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

Günter Bechly
June 30, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise. Read More ›
Sauropods
Photo: Skeletal Reconstruction of <I>Mamenchisaurus youngi</I>, though other sources speak of the very closely related <I>Omeisaurus</I>, in the Dinosaur Museum of Zigong, by Einar Fredriksen, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
June 28, 2023
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Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 28, 2023
Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›
OH_7_replica_03
Photo credit: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 23, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

Günter Bechly
June 23, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›
comb jelly
Photo: A comb jelly, by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
Date
June 22, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

David Coppedge
June 22, 2023
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›
Neanderthal Musuem
Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 17, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology
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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›

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