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

Fossil Friday (series)

ichthyosaur
Photo: Replica of birthing ichthyosaur fossil, Stephen O'Connor via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 29, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›
Cambrian_jellyfish
Photo: Burgessomedusa, Royal Ontario Museum, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 22, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
3
Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of  the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›
Edaphosaurus pogonias
Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 8, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology
3
In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 1, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
12
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
rafting2
Photo: <I>Ashaninkacebus</I> molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 25, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 18, 2023
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Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023
Evolution, Geology, Paleontology
5
Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›
Megasiphon thylakos
Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 4, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›
hominin tibia
Photo: Hominin tibia KNM-ER 741, after Fig. 1 in Pobiner et al. 2023, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 28, 2023
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
5
The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news. Read More ›
Eozoon
Photo credit: Wilson44691, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 21, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
11
In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›
Cloudina
Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 14, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
6
We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›

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