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
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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Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Photo: Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, by Mihaisiscanu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
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April 11, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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SETI Activists Still Don’t Get the Irony

David Coppedge
April 11, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Most SETI advocates stringently oppose intelligent design even as they rely on it. Read More ›
Australopithecus afarensis
human origins
Photo: An artist imagines Australopithecus afarensis, Hall of Human Origins, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson / CC BY-SA.
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April 10, 2022
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Human Origins and Anthropology
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Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

Science and Culture
April 10, 2022
Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Read More ›
Dawkins expelled
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Neil Thomas
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April 9, 2022
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The Dawkinsian Mythology

Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›
Smi32neuron
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David Coppedge
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April 8, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

David Coppedge
April 8, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Read More ›
octopus eye
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Casey Luskin
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April 8, 2022
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Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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More Implausible Stories about Eye Evolution

Casey Luskin
April 8, 2022
Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Such accounts invoke the abrupt appearance of key features of advanced eyes including the lens, cornea, and iris. Read More ›
Percival Lowell
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Neil Thomas
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April 8, 2022
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Evolution
Physical Sciences
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The Man on the Moon and Martian Canals

Neil Thomas
April 8, 2022
Evolution, Physical Sciences
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French writer Bernard de Fontenelle expressed the belief that there really was a man on the moon — and a whole civilisation to boot, if you please. Read More ›
earthworm
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Denyse O’Leary
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April 7, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
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Evolutionary Psychologist Argues that Worms Feel Pain. But How?

Denyse O’Leary
April 7, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind
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Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. Read More ›
ectoplasm
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Neil Thomas
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April 7, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
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Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

Neil Thomas
April 7, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics
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One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›
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Eric Cassell
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April 7, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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To Regulate Foraging, Harvester Ants Use a (Designed) Feedback Control Algorithm

Eric Cassell
April 7, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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These elements of harvester ant behavior present a severe challenge for the evolutionary paradigm. Read More ›
Westminster
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Daniel Reeves
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April 6, 2022
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Biology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Event Report: Design and the Designer

Daniel Reeves
April 6, 2022
Biology, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Read More ›

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