Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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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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

design detection

Arecibo
intellignet design
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
February 6, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

David Coppedge
February 6, 2023
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
7
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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informatics
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Date
November 12, 2022
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Bioethics
Intelligent Design
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Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

Science & Culture
November 12, 2022
Bioethics, Intelligent Design
1
At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph. Read More ›
crab pincers
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
November 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Science
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Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

Paul Nelson
November 3, 2022
Intelligent Design, Science
3
When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›
John Lennon memorial
Photo: John Lennon memorial, Central Park, by Lolalatorre, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
July 28, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

Brian Miller
July 28, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
7
Rosenhouse’s belief in the creative power of evolutionary processes is based not on hard data but on his faith in the philosophy of scientific materialism. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
June 14, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

Paul Nelson
June 14, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
6
It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›
Rosetta Stone
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Author
Stephen C. Meyer
Date
March 25, 2022
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Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Logic of Design Detection

Stephen C. Meyer
March 25, 2022
Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind. Read More ›
COVID-19
coronavirus
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Author
Cornelius Hunter
Date
March 16, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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COVID-19 Meets Intelligent Design

Cornelius Hunter
March 16, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine
9
To summarize, the authors use a terrible design hypothesis, and make ever-escalating claims of certainty from two weak observations. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
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Author
Eric H. Anderson
Date
February 1, 2021
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Physical Sciences
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My Concern About Avi Loeb’s Work in Relation to Intelligent Design

Eric H. Anderson
February 1, 2021
Physical Sciences
3
The evidence seems pretty light, at least compared to what we normally expect for a design inference. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
January 28, 2021
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Archaeology
Physical Sciences
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More on Avi Loeb’s Approach to Design Inferences

Paul Nelson
January 28, 2021
Archaeology, Physical Sciences
4
Loeb’s argument represents the most salient example of risky intelligent design reasoning in mainstream science. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
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Date
January 15, 2021
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Physical Sciences
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Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

Science & Culture
January 15, 2021
Physical Sciences
2
Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›

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