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 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

fertilization

orchids
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Author
Robert F. Shedinger
Date
September 13, 2022
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

Robert Shedinger
September 13, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Read More ›
lab mouse
Photo credit: Global Panorama, via Flickr.
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 11, 2022
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Bioethics
Ethics
Technology
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About Those “Synthetic Embryos”

Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2022
Bioethics, Ethics, Technology
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I have no problem with this work in mice. But the scientists want to take this technology into human experimentation. Read More ›
A_and_B_Larsen_orchids_-_Cattleya_Chocolate_Drop_x_Pao_de_Acucar_507-21
Photo: Orchids, by Arne and Bent Larsen or A./B. Larsen, CC BY-SA 2.5 DK <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/dk/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Robert F. Shedinger
Date
April 19, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Darwin’s Most Important Book?

Robert Shedinger
April 19, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Darwin was not at all unsure about the value of his orchid book. He viewed it as presenting the most convincing case for natural selection that he could make. Read More ›
Macaca fascicularis
Photo: Macaca fascicularis, by kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 17, 2021
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Bioethics
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2021
Bioethics
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They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
C. elegans
Photo: C. elegans, by HoPo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
March 10, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

Science & Culture
March 10, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter. Read More ›
baby
baby
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Author
Jonathan Wells
Date
September 14, 2020
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Medicine
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Why Should a Baby Live?

Jonathan Wells
September 14, 2020
Medicine
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My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›
sperm
sperm
Photo: Sperm, by Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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Author
Geoffrey Simmons
Date
August 5, 2020
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Evolution
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Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

Geoffrey Simmons
August 5, 2020
Evolution
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It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
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Photo: Pig oocyte, by Jakub Friedl / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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Author
Richard Sternberg
Date
July 16, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

Richard Sternberg
July 16, 2020
Intelligent Design
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In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’” Read More ›
pregnant
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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
December 6, 2019
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Biology
Medicine
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Dr. Gunter’s Junk Science on Abortion

Michael Egnor
December 6, 2019
Biology, Medicine
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An embryo is fully human, as is a fetus, a newborn, a toddler, a child, a teen, a mature adult and an elderly adult. Read More ›

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