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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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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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Biology

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David Coppedge
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December 5, 2025
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Intelligent Design
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Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

David Coppedge
December 5, 2025
Biology, Intelligent Design
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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws?  Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
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December 4, 2025
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How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025
Biology, Intelligent Design
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The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
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December 2, 2025
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Biology
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025
Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning
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It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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David Coppedge
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December 1, 2025
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

David Coppedge
December 1, 2025
Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›
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Giuseppe Sermonti
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November 30, 2025
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Biology
Reproductive Science
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From an Eagle’s Egg, an Eagle, and Other Mysteries

Giuseppe Sermonti
November 30, 2025
Biology, Reproductive Science
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Pavel Florenskij, a Russian physicist and theologian (1882-1937), imagined a field on the surfaces of icons that portray sacred images. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
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November 26, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse

Andrew McDiarmid
November 26, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Dr. Behe recently presented some of his ID arguments to faculty, students, and post-docs at Cornell University. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 20, 2025
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Does Animal Intelligence Point to a Platonic Realm of Pure Information?

Denyse O’Leary
November 20, 2025
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind
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How could a life form like an ant — not known for creative or independent thinking as such but rather for a hive mind — “evolve” such a strategy? Read More ›
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Giuseppe Sermonti
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November 17, 2025
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Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

Giuseppe Sermonti
November 17, 2025
Biology, Zoology
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Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 11, 2025
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Evolution
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War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Denyse O’Leary
November 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution
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Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public.” Read More ›
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David Coppedge
Date
October 24, 2025
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Centrioles Revealed as Part of a Large Signaling Network 

David Coppedge
October 24, 2025
Biology, Intelligent Design
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What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division? Read More ›

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