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
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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
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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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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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Fine-tuning

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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 30, 2024
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Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
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Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024
Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning
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It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›
Zoanthus
Photo: Zoanthus, by G. Bechly.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
September 23, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

Günter Bechly
September 23, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
7
This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability. Read More ›
Meyer_Shapiro
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 18, 2024
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

Andrew McDiarmid
September 18, 2024
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Read More ›
Cloudscape_Over_the_Philippine_Sea
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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
September 5, 2024
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Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024
Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›
Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
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Date
August 30, 2024
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

Science & Culture
August 30, 2024
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 22, 2024
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
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Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist

David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2024
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences
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Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology. Read More ›
DNA
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 21, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

David Klinghoffer
August 21, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Read More ›
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 21, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 21, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›
Taking Leave of Darwin
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 20, 2024
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Stephen Meyer on the Intellectual Shift Away from Darwinism

Andrew McDiarmid
August 20, 2024
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Darwinism is in trouble, and intelligent design is attracting high-profile converts in the scientific community. Read More ›
Jupiter
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 20, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 20, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›

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