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Doug Axe
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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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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Jonathan Witt

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Author
Howard Glicksman
Date
January 2, 2026
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle

Howard Glicksman
January 2, 2026
Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Besides the nose helping the mouth to bring in air, it also screens out dust and pollutants, while warming and adding water to prepare it for the lungs. Read More ›
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Woman walking through the universe
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 28, 2025
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

Denyse O’Leary
November 28, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies. Read More ›
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Kirk Durston
Date
November 25, 2025
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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be? 

Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
September 1, 2025
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Engineering
Medicine
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Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025
Engineering, Medicine
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It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
August 30, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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Lots of Real Things Are Immaterial; Here Are a Few

Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning
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I have a bank account. That means I have a bank card and a password. Also a checkbook. Are those items “the account?” Read More ›
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Date
July 20, 2025
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Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
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An Ancient Argument for the Soul

Science and Culture
July 20, 2025
Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind
5
Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
Date
June 10, 2025
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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light 

Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 10, 2025
Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›
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Author
Eric Hedin
Date
July 16, 2024
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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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Consciousness — At Odds with the Flesh

Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024
Engineering, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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The inescapable conclusion from studying the need for sleep is that the body cannot survive without a regular reprieve from effects of this system on the body. Read More ›
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
December 21, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›

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