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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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NonSeq
Photo source: YouTube (screenshot).
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post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
May 3, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Read More ›
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Piers Morgan interviews Stephen C. Meyer on Uncensored
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
May 3, 2024
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
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Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences
3
Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Read More ›
kinorhyncha
Photo: Eokinorhynchus rarus, SEM, Dinghua Yang in Zhang et al. 2015, fair use (Source: http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/ns/RelatedNews/201511/t20151130_156623.html).
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Günter Bechly
Date
May 3, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
8
The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.
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post
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Casey Luskin
Date
May 2, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

Casey Luskin
May 2, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
19
Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›
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Author
Eric Cassell
Date
May 2, 2024
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Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024
Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›
Junk DNA
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Richard Sternberg
Date
May 1, 2024
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Evolution
Genetics
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Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024
Evolution, Genetics
143
The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›
Dan Stern Cardinale
Photo: Dan Stern Cardinale, via YouTube (screenshot).
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
May 1, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Debate: Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale, Thursday, May 2

David Klinghoffer
May 1, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: "Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?" Read More ›
Dawkins-atheist-bus
Photo credit: Zoe Margolis, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
May 1, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education
22
What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
DNA
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post
Author
Daniel Witt
Date
May 1, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

Daniel Witt
May 1, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics
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I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›
Alexander Friedmann
Photo: Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann, August 1, 1916. Friedmann was a decorated military aviator and aviation instructor before making a name for himself in cosmology as “the man who proved Einstein wrong.” He is rightly regarded as one of the fathers of the Big Bang. By unknown photographer, 1916, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Date
April 30, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’

Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 30, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist. Read More ›

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