Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
Photo provided by Doug Axe.
Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
William A. Dembski
Image provided by Bill Dembski
Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY)
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bruce Gordon
Photo courtesy of Bruce Gordon
Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Photo courtesy of Stephen Iacoboni
David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Andrew McDiarmid
Copyright Andrew McDiarmid. All rights reserved.
Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Photo by Ashlee Best, Copyright Discovery Institute
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC BY)
Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
Photo provided by Emily Sandico
Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY)
Wesley J. Smith
Photo by Gary Fong, Used by Permission, All Rights Reserved
Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
Photo by Chris Morgan, © Discovery Institute
Daniel Witt
Photo provided by Daniel Witt.
Jonathan Witt

Topic

“God of the gaps”

multiverse
Image credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.
Type
post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 4, 2021
Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, , , , , , , , ,

The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
2
This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›
Darioconusauricomusshell_large
Photo credit: Casey Luskin.
Type
post
Author
Casey Luskin
Date
July 6, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
12
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›
loennig
Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.
Type
post
Author
Granville Sewell
Date
June 28, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , ,

Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis

Granville Sewell
June 28, 2021
Intelligent Design
5
In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question. Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Date
April 20, 2021
Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking

Science & Culture
April 20, 2021
Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences
2
Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.
Type
post
Author
Bethel McGrew
Date
April 19, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , ,

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

Bethel McGrew
April 19, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›
Mega Millions
Mega Millions
Photo: Mega Millions billboard, by Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
Type
post
Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
July 15, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design

Jonathan McLatchie
July 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy
4
Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States. Read More ›
Peppered Moth
Type
post
Author
Robert F. Shedinger
Date
August 14, 2019
Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Have Religion Scholars Been Deceived by Darwin?

Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2019
Evolution
5
On the relationship between religion on science, few scholars have been more influential than the late Ian Barbour, a physicist and theologian. Read More ›
1280px-Victor_III_class_submarine
Type
post
Author
Kirk Durston
Date
August 2, 2019
Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Scientific Method for Design Detection

Kirk Durston
August 2, 2019
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
4
My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›
perpetual motion machine
Averick
Photo: A phony perpetual motion machine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Date
March 7, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, , , , , , , , ,

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

Science & Culture
March 7, 2019
Intelligent Design, Physics
1
He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Read More ›
Darwin statue
intelligent design
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Natural History Museum, London, by Bruno Martins via Unsplash.
Type
post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 22, 2019
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2019
Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting
2
Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›

© Discovery Institute