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
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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
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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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Daniel Dennett

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 6, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Linguistics
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Denyse O’Leary
October 6, 2024
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Linguistics
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Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 1, 2024
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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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Scientists Ask: Does the Soul Survive Death?

Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2024
Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind
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Gradually, medical findings about what happens to the mind around the time of death are undermining assumptions that the soul dies with the body. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 30, 2024
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Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
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Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024
Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning
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It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›
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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
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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›
Charles-Darwin
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 5, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?

Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact? Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 2, 2024
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Psychology
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Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

Denyse O’Leary
September 2, 2024
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics, Psychology
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It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
August 25, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Now, Here’s a Theory of Evolution Based on Cellular “Thinking”

Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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Note how far we are from the world of Darwin’s followers now, while still staying with the evidence. Read More ›
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Daniel Witt
Date
August 7, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
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Is This a Paradigm Shift? 

Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science
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Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 31, 2024
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 30, 2024
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Chemistry
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

Denyse O’Leary
June 30, 2024
Chemistry, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Read More ›

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