Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
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

Topic

Darwinian theory

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Photo: A human display from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, via Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 6, 2024
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2024
Bioethics, Evolution
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This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 30, 2024
Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›
cicada
Photo credit: Katja Schulz, via Flickr, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
May 29, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

David Coppedge
May 29, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 23, 2024
Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New Novel Invites Teens to Ponder our Privileged Planet

Andrew McDiarmid
May 23, 2024
Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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There’s a wealth of books covering the arguments for intelligent design, and yet one type of book has so far been missing — a young adult novel. Read More ›
Bacillus subtilis
Image: Bacillus subtilis, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by WMrapids, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
May 9, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Antibiotic Resistance: An Example of Chance and Necessity, or Programming?

Emily Reeves
May 9, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Antibiotic resistance is an icon of observable evolution; however, the extent to which chance mutations underpin the phenomenon remains uncertain. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joe Haupt from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
April 15, 2024
Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
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“Irreducible Complexity” in the News

David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting
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In a loose sense, America may be “irreducibly complex” but NPR sure is not. And “diverse”? America is, but NPR certainly isn’t.  Read More ›
hemichordate
Photo: Holotype of Mesobalanoglossus buergeri, by G. Bechly.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
April 12, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
April 12, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
emperor penguins
Photo: Emperor penguins, by Denis Luyten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Daniel Witt
Date
April 10, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Synergies All the Way Down 

Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
Samuel Wilberforce
Image: Samuel Wilberforce, by George Richmond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Robert F. Shedinger
Date
February 26, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
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What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

Robert Shedinger
February 26, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science
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The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. Read More ›
caterpillar
Photo: Caterpillar in Baltic amber, by Manukyan Andranik via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 International).
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 10, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›

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