Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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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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engineers

CELS
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 20, 2022
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Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Fruitful Marriage of Biology and Engineering

David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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If biology isn’t designed, which is another way of saying "engineered," wouldn’t this state of affairs be pretty counterintuitive? Read More ›
chilly
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William A. Dembski
Date
June 18, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
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The Challenge from Jason Rosenhouse

William A. Dembski
June 18, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics
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"The response would be a lot chillier if they tried the same arguments in front of audiences with the relevant expertise." Is that so? Read More ›
Harvester_ant_hole
Photo: Harvester ants at the entrance to their nest, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Eric Cassell
Date
April 7, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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To Regulate Foraging, Harvester Ants Use a (Designed) Feedback Control Algorithm

Eric Cassell
April 7, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
4
These elements of harvester ant behavior present a severe challenge for the evolutionary paradigm. Read More ›
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Date
March 10, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

Science & Culture
March 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp. Read More ›
harvester ants
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Date
March 4, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Ants Use Algorithms Similar to Those of the Internet

Science & Culture
March 4, 2022
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
3
Optimization algorithms enable the ant colony to decide how many ants to send to a given food source and when to drastically reduce the number. Read More ›
Area 51
Photo: Area 51, by X51 (Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/x51/ Web: http://x51.org/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
January 13, 2022
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Biology as Reverse Engineering

Brian Miller
January 13, 2022
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics
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An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›
orca
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John G. West
Date
December 10, 2021
Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
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Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

John G. West
December 10, 2021
Biology, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design
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Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Read More ›
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design intuition
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Author
Eric Cassell
Date
December 7, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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The Miracle of Spiderwebs

Eric Cassell
December 7, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Spiders are another of nature’s master engineers. About half of known spider species (order Araneae) construct webs made of silk. Read More ›
Animal Algorithms
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Jonathan Witt
Date
November 1, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism

Jonathan Witt
November 1, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The book is all about the buzzing, migrating, web-spinning, and colony-building world of ingenious animals. Read More ›
engineering
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Date
September 24, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Science & Culture
September 24, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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