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
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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 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

Down syndrome

Hobbit-man
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
October 4, 2024
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

Günter Bechly
October 4, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›
The_anaphase_process_in_root_cells
Photo: Anaphase, root cells, by Radosław.pyt, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
August 27, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

Jonathan McLatchie
August 27, 2024
Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Read More ›
Mitosis_cycle
Photo credit: Animalculist, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
August 26, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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The Elegant Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

Jonathan McLatchie
August 26, 2024
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Without this exquisitely engineered system, the cell risks distributing an uneven number of chromosomes to the daughter cells. Read More ›
Homo_neanderthalensis_skull
Photo credit: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 16, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›
Homo_neanderthalensis,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1225_1278
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 29, 2024
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Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2024
Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology
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It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›
ancient-genomes-reveal
Photo credit: Gobierno de Navarra/J.L. Larrion, via Phys.org.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
February 21, 2024
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Archaeology
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome

Denyse O’Leary
February 21, 2024
Archaeology, Bioethics, Ethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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We’ve all probably heard from one pundit or another that prehistoric humans discarded children with disabilities, just as animals might. Read More ›
Charlottesville demonstration 2017
Photo: Charlottesville demonstration, 2017, by Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Gary Varner
Date
March 10, 2022
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Ethics
Evolution
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Ties that Bind: The Alt-Right’s Connections to Social Darwinist Madison Grant and Eugenics

Gary Varner
March 10, 2022
Ethics, Evolution
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It’s important to understand what the Alt-Right believes. They are not just an extreme offshoot of either the Right or the Left. Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 20, 2021
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Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2021
Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics
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I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Read More ›

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