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

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Smok wawelski
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David Klinghoffer
Date
September 8, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures

David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go. Read More ›
conference attendees
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Daniel Reeves
Date
July 11, 2023
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Postcard from São Paulo: Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil

Daniel Reeves
July 11, 2023
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
5
The theme of the conference was familiar to us, but I’d like to think that we’ve heard it sung to a new tune in more ways than one.  Read More ›
Chinese Han characters
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Photo: Chinese Han characters, by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
David Berlinski
Date
July 10, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

David Berlinski
July 10, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Read More ›
Tarzan
Image: Tarzan, by J. Allen St. John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Nancy Pearcey
Date
June 8, 2023
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Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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The Barbarian Within: Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity

Nancy Pearcey
June 8, 2023
Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
10
Edgar Rice Burroughs set his Tarzan series (1912) in the African jungle. Because of Tarzan’s wild upbringing, he avoids the debilitating forces of civilization. Read More ›
DNA
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
February 23, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Medicine
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The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why

Stephen J. Iacoboni
February 23, 2023
Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Medicine
3
These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just "the way things are," not proving anything. But this is not so. Read More ›
Hexokinase
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
September 29, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
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Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

Paul Nelson
September 29, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Science
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The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
Dean Koontz
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Date
September 16, 2022
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Arts
Bioethics
Culture
Human Exceptionalism
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Wesley Smith Talks with Dean Koontz: Human Exceptionalism, Meaning in Life, and More

Science & Culture
September 16, 2022
Arts, Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism
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Dean and Wesley discuss how Dean came to be an author, the importance of human exceptionalism, and the problem with transhumanism. Read More ›
leaf hopper
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William A. Dembski
Date
September 1, 2022
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

William A. Dembski
September 1, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
Ada Lovelace
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Robert J. Marks II
Date
June 28, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

Robert J. Marks II
June 28, 2022
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
6
Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›
Telegraph operator
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David Coppedge
Date
May 19, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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In Life, Not One Code but Many

David Coppedge
May 19, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code. Read More ›

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