Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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 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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Life Sciences

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Author
Walter Myers III
Date
October 20, 2021
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Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

Walter Myers III
October 20, 2021
Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe). Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
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Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind

Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2021
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces. Read More ›
ostrich
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Date
October 17, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

Science and Culture
October 17, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences
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Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›
three-spine sticklebacks
Image: Three-spine stickleback, by Alexander Francis Lydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 15, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

Brian Miller
October 15, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Date
October 15, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Philosophy of Science
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Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?

Science and Culture
October 15, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Philosophy of Science
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Biologist Jonathan Wells contends that modern evolutionary theory is a current instance of a dominant paradigm in crisis. Read More ›
cichlid fish
cichlid fish
Photo: Cichlid fish, by Russell D. Fernald and Sabrina S. Burmeister / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 14, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

Brian Miller
October 14, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Read More ›
Coris_gaimard_real
Photo: A labrid fish, by laszlo-photo, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 13, 2021
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

Brian Miller
October 13, 2021
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Read More ›
human eye
Heretic
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
October 13, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
chimp
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 13, 2021
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Bioethics
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!

David Klinghoffer
October 13, 2021
Bioethics, Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway. Read More ›
Science Uprising
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 12, 2021
Categories
Biology
Geology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Tomorrow: New Science Uprising Episode on Human Origins

David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2021
Biology, Geology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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A view open to intelligent design can follow the evidence freely. It does not require a particular narrative of how humanity arose. Read More ›

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