Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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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
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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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

function

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David Coppedge
Date
July 11, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

David Coppedge
July 11, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Read More ›
Dan Stern Cardinale
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 21, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Dr. Dan Has a Taste for Debate

David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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From what I’ve been told, there are many examples of “non-conserved” regions having sequence-independent functions. Read More ›
DNA
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 16, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

Andrew McDiarmid
June 16, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. Read More ›
DNA
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 24, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

Jonathan McLatchie
May 24, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate. Read More ›
DNA
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 16, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

Jonathan McLatchie
May 16, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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I commend Dr. Dan for being an amicable dialogue partner and for his good faith attempt to engage substantively with the relevant scientific issues. Read More ›
DNA
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 13, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›
DNA
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 6, 2024
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Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance: Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0

David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024
Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! Read More ›
DNA
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Casey Luskin
Date
May 2, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

Casey Luskin
May 2, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›
Junk DNA
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Richard Sternberg
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May 1, 2024
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Evolution
Genetics
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Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024
Evolution, Genetics
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The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›
polar bear
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
April 25, 2024
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Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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A Closer Look at Natural Law 

Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024
Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy
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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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