Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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Opabinia regalis
Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 1, 2021
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Anatomy
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2021
Anatomy, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›
Pearl Oysters
Photo credit: Keith Pomakis, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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August 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster

Science & Culture
August 6, 2021
Intelligent Design
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The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals. Read More ›
diatom
Photo credit: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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August 4, 2021
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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

Science & Culture
August 4, 2021
Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›
three-spine sticklebacks
Image: Three-spine stickleback, by Alexander Francis Lydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
July 2, 2021
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

Science & Culture
July 2, 2021
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›
Bechly Stuttgart
Günter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, via Discovery Institute.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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To an Italian ID Group, Günter Bechly Explains His Remarkable Journey

David Klinghoffer
June 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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Having opened his mind to the possibility of design, Dr. Bechly saw it everywhere. Read More ›
guns on USS Iowa
Photo: Guns on USS Iowa, by PH1 Jeff Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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May 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Closer Look at the T3SS Reveals Design

Science & Culture
May 6, 2021
Intelligent Design
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If one visualizes the recoil action of large guns on ships as they fire, that is perhaps what the EA (export apparatus) is doing for the T3SS. Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel
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Author
Richard Weikart
Date
April 26, 2021
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Bioethics
Evolution
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New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021
Bioethics, Evolution
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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›
Ardipithecus ramidus
Photo: Ardipithecus ramidus, by Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
February 26, 2021
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Human Origins and Anthropology
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Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker

Casey Luskin
February 26, 2021
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species. Read More ›
1280px-Hawaii_at_Sunset_with_Palm_Trees_(5495739231)
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 27, 2021
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide

Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2021
Bioethics, Medicine
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Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe. Read More ›
Orion Nebula
Photo: Orion Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI.
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Date
January 13, 2021
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Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
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How Materialists Rely on Intelligent Design

Science & Culture
January 13, 2021
Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics
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They will mock, attack, and ignore intelligent design theory. But evolutionists love using it in their own ways. Read More ›

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