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
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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

Canceled Science

Eric Hedin
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 12, 2021
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Physical Sciences
Physics
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Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin

David Klinghoffer
August 12, 2021
Physical Sciences, Physics
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The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson. Read More ›
MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.
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Jonathan Witt
Date
July 1, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
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Information, Entropy, and the First Life

Jonathan Witt
July 1, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics
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Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism. Read More ›
Eric Hedin
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Date
May 15, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
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Physicist Eric Hedin: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to an Unguided Origin of Life

Science & Culture
May 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics
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Such an event would have involved a breathtaking increase in new information, and physics tells us clearly that mindless nature only degrades information. Read More ›
San Francisco from space
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March 31, 2021
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Physical Sciences
Physics
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Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

Science & Culture
March 31, 2021
Physical Sciences, Physics
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When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. Read More ›
Spring on Saturn
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
March 22, 2021
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Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Jonathan Witt
March 22, 2021
Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
Canceled Science
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Date
March 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Eric Hedin, Canceled Science, and the Limits of Science

Science & Culture
March 16, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Physicist Eric Hedin sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss what does and doesn’t constitute science, what nature can and can’t accomplish, and more. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 11, 2021
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Scientific Freedom
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In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2021
Scientific Freedom
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The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Read More ›
red nebula and blue nebula
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Date
March 8, 2021
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Physical Sciences
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“Canceled” Physicist Eric Hedin Explores the Boundaries of Science

Science & Culture
March 8, 2021
Physical Sciences
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Robert Crowther and author Eric Hedin begin by revisiting the atheist attack on Hedin and his Ball State University course, "The Boundaries of Science." Read More ›

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