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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Stephen C. Meyer
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Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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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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Physics

Thomas Aquinas
Thomists
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Logan Paul Gage
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April 24, 2023
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Biology
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Intelligent Design
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Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

Logan Paul Gage
April 24, 2023
Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›
Thomas Aquinas
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Ann Gauger
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April 18, 2023
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Biology
Cosmology
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Shall We Baptize Darwin? A Catholic Biologist Reflects

Ann Gauger
April 18, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics
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Theistic evolutionists are baptizing a theory first composed by Darwin as a substitute for the doctrine of special Creation. Read More ›
Meyer Metaxas
God Hypothesis
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Andrew McDiarmid
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April 16, 2023
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Biology
Cosmology
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God Hypothesis: Exploring the Ultimate Mystery

Andrew McDiarmid
April 16, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Eric Metaxas interviews Meyer about the ultimate mystery of the universe as drawn from recent scientific discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biology. Read More ›
Newton by Blake
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Stephen C. Meyer
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April 4, 2023
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Biology
Cosmology
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Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics
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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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March 8, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
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Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

Michael Egnor
March 8, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›
Aristotle
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Michael Egnor
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March 6, 2023
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Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

Michael Egnor
March 6, 2023
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
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Granville Sewell
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March 5, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution

Granville Sewell
March 5, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology
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Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Read More ›
Hemiphlebiidae
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Günter Bechly
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March 3, 2023
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Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

Günter Bechly
March 3, 2023
Chemistry, Evolution, Paleontology, Physics
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In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless. Read More ›
Alhambra
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David Klinghoffer
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February 9, 2023
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Cosmology
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Meyer, Craig, Turek: Examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument

David Klinghoffer
February 9, 2023
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Kalam is a reference to ideas in medieval Islamic philosophy that William Lane Craig singlehandedly did much to revive. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 6872
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Paul Nelson
Date
February 6, 2023
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Astronomy
Intelligent Design
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Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023
Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›

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