Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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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Neuroscience & Mind

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Person is looking for way out of psychedelic maze. A surreal labyrinth in magical forest. Human consciousness is at dead end, searching for solutions. Created with Generative AI
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 29, 2025
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?

Denyse O’Leary
November 29, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul. Read More ›
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Woman walking through the universe
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Denyse O’Leary
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November 28, 2025
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Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

Denyse O’Leary
November 28, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 26, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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So, Chimps Are Rational Now, Too? War on Human Exceptionalism Goes On

Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology
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The trouble many researchers go to in order to try to efface the stark reality of human exceptionalism is astonishing. Read More ›
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Kirk Durston
Date
November 25, 2025
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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be? 

Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›
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Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI
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Casey Luskin
Date
November 21, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
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COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Technology
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The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 20, 2025
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Biology
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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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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 12, 2025
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Medicine
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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Helping hands, care for the elderly concept
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2025
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Faith & Science
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 2, 2025
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Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
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When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2025
Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom
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Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›
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October 30, 2025
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Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

Science & Culture
October 30, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›

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