Tag: Designer Science (series)

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 31, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academics, ACLU, animal behavior, C. W. Howell, design detection, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Dover trial, Duke University, evolution, Expelled (movie), genomics, Google searches, hare, human body, intelligent cause, intelligent design, linchpin, media attention, Michael Behe, molecular biology, National Center for Science Education, New York University Press, paleontology, peer-reviewed papers, Pennsylvania, Phillip Johnson, PragerU, protein science, research program, Seattle, snowballs, Stephen Meyer, students, Summer Seminars, systematics, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Story of Everything, tortoise, universe, YouTube videos}

Steady and Consistent Growth: The Real Story of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 31, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Snowballs start small. But they grow steadily over time, and after a while they really start to get large and pick up speed. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academic publishers, books, C. W. Howell, creationism, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Douglas Groothuis, Dover School District, evolution, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, New York University Press, Ronald Numbers}

Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science

_{Casey Luskin
August 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In C. W. Howell’s mind, intelligent design is still recovering from the Dover trial, and if there’s evidence to the contrary, he doesn’t want to see it. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Barbara Forrest, C. W. Howell, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, Darwin Strikes Back, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Doubts About Darwin, Dover trial, Edward Humes, Gordy Slack, IDEA Center, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Lauri Lebo, Michael Behe, Monkey Girl, novel arguments, Paul R. Gross, PhD thesis, preconceptions, scientific consensus, scientific papers, scientism, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything, The Devil in Dover, Thomas Woodward}

C. W. Howell in Context: A Brief History of Histories

_{Casey Luskin
August 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Brian Miller, C. W. Howell, conservatism, Delphic oracle, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), evolution, God and Evolution, history, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jay Richards, journalists, lockdowns, Logan Gage, Michael Behe, Michael Chabarek, news angle, news hook, NYU Press, opinions writers, scientism, skepticism, Thomism, thought crime, Tom Bethell, vaccine mandates, William Dembski}

Is Intelligent Design the Root of All Science Skepticism?

_{Casey Luskin
August 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As author C. W. Howell puts it, various ID proponents have sometimes committed the thought crime of “doubting the science consensus outside evolution." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academic reviewers, Animal Algorithms, Ann Gauger, astrobiology, Brian Miller, C. W. Howell, Charles Thaxton, Christianity Today, complex programmed behaviors, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), dGRNs, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, Edward Larson, epigenetics, evo-devo, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, Howard Glicksman, ID 3.0 Research Program, information, intelligent design, James Tour, Journal of Molecular Biology, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Minding the Brain, molecular machines, natural genetic engineering, neo-Lamarckism, neutral evolution, New York University Press, peer-reviewed literature, Plato's Revenge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Quarterly Review of Biology, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Robert J. Marks, self-organization, Signature in the Cell, statistics, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Stuart Burgess, symbiogenesis, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Fighting a Battle That’s Over, and ID Won, Designer Science Omits Key Portions of ID’s History

_{Casey Luskin
August 27, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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I want to be fair to Howell, but I also want to be fair to my colleagues who have worked hard developing and publishing new ID arguments over the past 20 years. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Big Bang, biochemists, Biology and Philosophy, books, C. W. Howell, David E. Levin, Del Ratzsch, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), EWTN, First Amendment Law Review, inaccuracies, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, John Maddox, Judge John E. Jones, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Mary Katherine Hackney, media, Michael Behe, National Catholic Reporter, New York University Press, North Carolina Law Review, plagiarism, publishers, quotations, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Roman Catholicism, Skeptical Inquirer, Steve Fuller, The Design Inference, University of Warwick, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

NYU Press Book Makes Fake Behe Quote a Linchpin of Its Case Against Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before. Read More ›

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Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academic publishers, Baylor University, biochemists, biology, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity Today, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Duke University, Edward Larson, fake quotes, Francis Beckwith, intelligent design, Jennifer Hammer, John West, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, New York University Press, Oxford University, scholarship, Science and Culture Today, Seattle}

NYU Press Pulls Anti-ID Book with Fabricated Quote from Michael Behe

_{Science & Culture
August 25, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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“What happened is deeply ironic. This book was touted by the publisher as showing how ID's skepticism of Darwinism contributed to a ‘post-truth’ society." Read More ›