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
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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

fruit flies

Drosophila melanogaster
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
February 15, 2024
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
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Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

David Coppedge
February 15, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science
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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from  a cursory glance. Read More ›
earth
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
June 2, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Phosphorus Cycle: Cause or Effect?

David Coppedge
June 2, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Phosphorus, oxygen, and microbes cooperate in a delicate balance that sustains our productive biosphere. How did they come to interact? Read More ›
hand in mirror 2
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
November 29, 2022
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Same-Handed Molecules Are an “Overarching Design Principle” in Life, Say Researchers

David Coppedge
November 29, 2022
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Without foresight to solve heterochiral incidents, a primordial cell would quickly perish even if, against all odds, it began homochiral.  Read More ›
twins
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Author
Cornelius Hunter
Date
November 14, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

Cornelius Hunter
November 14, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences
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Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
Denis Noble
Denis Noble
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Author
Jonathan Wells
Date
August 16, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Science
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

Jonathan Wells
August 16, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Science
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No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›
sea turtles
Photo: Sea turtles, by Claudio Giovenzana, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
April 29, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
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For Navigating Animals, a Gift from Magnetotactic Bacteria

David Coppedge
April 29, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology
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Nowhere do these scientists explain how bacteria invented magnetotaxis and encoded it into their genes. Read More ›
fruit fly
Photo: A fruit fly, by Macroscopic Solutions, via Flickr.
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Author
Jonathan Wells
Date
February 16, 2022
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Evolution
Life Sciences
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Mutation

Jonathan Wells
February 16, 2022
Evolution, Life Sciences
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According to evolutionary biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith, the idea that DNA contains all the information needed to make an organism “is simply false.” Read More ›
engineering
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Date
January 11, 2022
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Engineers Crash the Evolution Party, Rethink Biological Variation

Science & Culture
January 11, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Miller and Luskin discuss fruit flies, finch beaks, stickleback fish, mutational hotspots, phenotypic plasticity, and the gravity well model. Read More ›
fruit fly
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 4, 2021
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

Brian Miller
October 4, 2021
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
cricket
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 2, 2021
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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Bioethicists: Insects Are People, Too!

Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism
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We have even seen one professor declare the supposed personhood of peas. Now, it is insects’ turn at being anthropomorphized. Read More ›

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