Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
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 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
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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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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Jonathan Witt

Topic

Anthropic Principle

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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
December 16, 2025
Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

David Klinghoffer
December 16, 2025
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Read More ›
NGC-602
Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 22, 2024
Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Physicists Want to Put Cosmic Design to the Test

Denyse O’Leary
December 22, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
3
Their thesis is based on cosmic inflation theory and on the behavior of dark matter. Read More ›
black hole
Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
September 12, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
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Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 12, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology
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I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
July 9, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Granville Sewell
July 9, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
consciousness
Photo credit: Aedrian via Unsplash.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
March 15, 2024
Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

Denyse O’Leary
March 15, 2024
Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
6
Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
Photo: Roger Penrose, by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
December 15, 2023
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Granville Sewell
December 15, 2023
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
4
Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Sagittarius C
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).
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Author
Eric Hedin
Date
November 27, 2023
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
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A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Eric Hedin
November 27, 2023
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
July 25, 2023
Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science Education
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In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Granville Sewell
July 25, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science Education
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Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded. Read More ›
Star trails from the International Space Station
Photo: Star trails from the International Space Station, by NASA/Don Pettit.
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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
April 6, 2023
Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
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Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Guillermo Gonzalez
April 6, 2023
Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth
5
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
February 1, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science
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Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

Neil Thomas
February 1, 2023
Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science
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Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›

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