Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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Arizona State University

HowproteinsaremadeNSF
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Date
April 6, 2026
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Design Haunts a New Hypothesis for the Origin of the Ribosome

Science & Culture
April 6, 2026
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It’s worth paying some attention to the identity of the first author, population geneticist Michael Lynch of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State. Read More ›
Daphnia-pulex
Photo: Daphnia pulex, by Yale Peabody Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 26, 2024
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Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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No. 7 Story of 2024: Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution

Denyse O’Leary
December 26, 2024
Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
Daphnia
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Jonathan McLatchie
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November 12, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Is Daphnia Evolving at “Lightning Speed”?

Jonathan McLatchie
November 12, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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If this is a prime example of the transformative power of evolution, the evidence is not at all impressive. Read More ›
Daphnia-pulex
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 22, 2024
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Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2024
Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
Atlas
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 1, 2024
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Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

Andrew McDiarmid
February 1, 2024
Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
3
Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Read More ›
Tour in Science Uprising
origin of life
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
January 29, 2024
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Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

Andrew McDiarmid
January 29, 2024
Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking. Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo credit: Lee Roger Berger research team, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
September 22, 2023
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Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023
Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›
microbe 1
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David Coppedge
Date
June 6, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Wonderful Microbes Are the Planet’s Ecosystem Engineers

David Coppedge
June 6, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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The few pathogens among bacteria give a bad rap to the majority that do wonderful things — for us and for our environment. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
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Paul Nelson
Date
April 5, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

Paul Nelson
April 5, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›
puppy
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 28, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

Denyse O’Leary
January 28, 2022
Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›

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