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

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DNA
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
November 29, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
Electric DNA
DNA
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
November 28, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›
DNA
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Author
Ann Gauger
Date
November 19, 2023
Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Planetology
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Ann Gauger
November 19, 2023
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Planetology
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Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
protein
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
November 14, 2023
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Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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To Create Functional Proteins,  Evolution Would Need a Miracle

Brian Miller
November 14, 2023
Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Theologian Rope Kojonen claims that God designed the laws of nature, which then gave rise to “fine-tuned” preconditions and smooth fitness landscapes. Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
September 28, 2023
Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
September 27, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
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Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution

David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology
2
Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory. Read More ›
femur
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 26, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Try to Write Instructions for a Femur; Go On, Just Try

Andrew McDiarmid
September 26, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Professor Behe invites us to join him for a sobering thought experiment: attempting to build an instruction manual for a human femur bone. Read More ›
human yolk sac
Photo credit: Ed Uthman, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
September 25, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac

Casey Luskin
September 25, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Read More ›
kinesin
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Author
Robert F. Shedinger
Date
September 7, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind? 

Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›
bacteria
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Paul Nelson
Date
August 15, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

Paul Nelson
August 15, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›

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