Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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

emergence

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Author
Daniel Witt
Date
August 23, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic? 

Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›
prism
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
November 1, 2023
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Understanding the Limits of Scientism

Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 1, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed.  Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
September 28, 2023
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
aardvark
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
August 30, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Emergence by Design

Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›
Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum
Photo: Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum, a peace lily, by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 30, 2023
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Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023
Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›
pony
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Author
Robert J. Marks II
Date
June 24, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›
Cambrian animal
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
June 15, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

David Coppedge
June 15, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›
end of the road
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
August 23, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

Brian Miller
August 23, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›
consciousness
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
November 10, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›
endothelial-cell
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
March 27, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Thermodynamic Challenges to the Origin of Life

Brian Miller
March 27, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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Spontaneous natural processes always tend toward states of greater entropy, lower energy, or both. Read More ›

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