Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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 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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Author
Brian Miller
Date
December 22, 2025
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Engineering
Intelligent Design
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Year in Review: Demonstrating the Power of the Intelligent Design Framework in Biology

Brian Miller
December 22, 2025
Engineering, Intelligent Design
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Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Read More ›
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David Coppedge
Date
December 1, 2025
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

David Coppedge
December 1, 2025
Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
11
We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. 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
5
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
23
The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›
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Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI
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Casey Luskin
Date
November 21, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Technology
9
The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›
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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 12, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
6
The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 6, 2025
Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Could Neanderthals Create Art, or Were They Not Evolved Enough?

Denyse O’Leary
November 6, 2025
Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Materialists have long sought to show that Neanderthals were less mentally evolved than modern humans. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 5, 2025
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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Cave with cave drawings. Cartoon mountain scene background Primitive cave paintings. ancient petroglyphs.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 22, 2025
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Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Psychology
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In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

Denyse O’Leary
October 22, 2025
Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology, Psychology
5
This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›
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Conceptual art journey to dream. Step into another world, Inside of brain, fantasy, escape from life concept. Made with Generative AI
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 20, 2025
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›

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