Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
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 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
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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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Science and Culture Today | Page 252 | Discovering Design in Nature

skeletons
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August 9, 2022
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Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed

Science and Culture
August 9, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed. Read More ›
dependency graph
Image: A dependency graph, by c4ristian, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Emily Reeves
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August 9, 2022
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Evolution
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Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›
CELS
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August 8, 2022
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Biology
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Revolution as Scientists Treat Living Systems as Engineered

Science and Culture
August 8, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science
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This sea change in perspective is rapidly accelerating progress in experimental biology. Read More ›
Brassica_rapa_plant
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David Coppedge
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August 8, 2022
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Biology
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Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes

David Coppedge
August 8, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes. Read More ›
cherries
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Emily Reeves
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August 8, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

Emily Reeves
August 8, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Science
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The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›
Octopus tetricus
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August 7, 2022
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Octopuses from the Sky: Scientists Propose “Aliens Seeded Life on Earth”

Science and Culture
August 7, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Host Sarah Chaffee and biologist Ann Gauger discuss panspermia, the topic of a peer-reviewed paper by several quite serious scientists. Read More ›
honey bee
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Denyse O’Leary
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August 6, 2022
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Bees Feel Pain. Therefore…Insect Rights?

Denyse O’Leary
August 6, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues. Read More ›
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Emily Reeves
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August 5, 2022
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Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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August 5, 2022
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Chemistry
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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022
Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology
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Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›
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Photo: A treehopper nymph of the family Membracidae, by Günter Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
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August 5, 2022
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Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: Treehopper Nymph in Dominican Amber and the Miracle of Mimicry

Günter Bechly
August 5, 2022
Paleontology, Science
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The miracle of mimicry, for which there are countless examples in the animal kingdom, represents powerful evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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