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
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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
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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
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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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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Fine-tuning

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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 27, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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The Very “Nature of the Universe” Puzzles Physicists

Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities. Read More ›
Hubble
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Eric Hedin
Date
May 28, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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A “Quantum Miracle” that Leads to Life

Eric Hedin
May 28, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
5
To eventually form stars, planets, and life, neutral atoms are a definite prerequisite. Read More ›
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Author
Aaron Zimmer
Date
May 8, 2025
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
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The Purpose of Cosmic Fine-Tuning

Aaron Zimmer
May 8, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
2
True, without fine-tuning there would be no life, but that’s only because life depends on everything else, like atoms and stars. Read More ›
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Date
May 5, 2025
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Event, May 13: The Heavens Declare

Science & Culture
May 5, 2025
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Paul Nelson and Brian DeVries will give special attention to how humans are able to detect design in nature. Read More ›
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
April 24, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Is the Multiverse Real?

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›
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Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
April 22, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
2
Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 18, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Why the “Universe from Nothing” Model Points to Intelligent Design

Andrew McDiarmid
April 18, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
3
Did our universe come from nothing, as some physicists have proposed? This episode is built around a suggestion I recently received from a listener. Read More ›
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 8, 2025
Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences

Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin

Andrew McDiarmid
April 8, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
3
How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 5, 2025
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
2
Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
Bayes'-Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
February 11, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›

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