Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
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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consciousness
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 21, 2023
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Neuroscience & Mind
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Physics
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023
Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning
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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›
Sirenia
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Günter Bechly
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January 20, 2023
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Evolution
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Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology, Science
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So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›
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January 19, 2023
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Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Science and Culture
January 19, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science
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Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›
free will
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 19, 2023
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New Brain Research Supports Free Will

Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2023
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›
swimmer
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Neil Thomas
Date
January 19, 2023
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Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design

Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023
Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
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The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›
zebrafish
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Eric Cassell
Date
January 18, 2023
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Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

Eric Cassell
January 18, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science
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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›
T-Rex
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 17, 2023
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Neuroscience & Mind
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New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

Denyse O’Leary
January 17, 2023
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
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January 17, 2023
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Biology
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Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Science and Culture
January 17, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science
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Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
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Stephen C. Meyer
Date
January 17, 2023
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Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Science
Scientific Reasoning
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New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

Stephen C. Meyer
January 17, 2023
Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Science, Scientific Reasoning
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Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›
Thomas Malthus
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Neil Thomas
Date
January 16, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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