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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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 31, 2025
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Wild Baboons Fail the Mirror Self-Awareness Test

Denyse O’Leary
January 31, 2025
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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In a video, it seems clear that not one of the animals recognizes that the figure in the mirror is a reflection of itself. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 27, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 26, 2025
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Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Elephant Personhood — Nixed Again

Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2025
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind
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The activists had some reason for hope. Two judges in New York’s highest court swallowed the baloney in a 5–2 ruling. Read More ›
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Eric Cassell
Date
January 14, 2025
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects

Eric Cassell
January 14, 2025
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology
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Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 10, 2025
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Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025
Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
Date
December 24, 2024
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Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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What If? The Threat of Sentient AGI

Eric Hedin
December 24, 2024
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind
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John West brings a word of caution to public health policies espoused by Francis Collins. Collins succinctly illustrates an example of unbalanced morality. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
Date
December 17, 2024
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Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024
Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 14, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›
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Date
December 12, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

Science & Culture
December 12, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 10, 2024
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Intelligent Design
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Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›

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