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
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
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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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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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

irreducibly complex systems

Omega=Centauri
Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
December 5, 2023
Categories
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

Granville Sewell
December 5, 2023
Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all. Read More ›
The Design Inference
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
November 17, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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An Argument from Ignorance? 

William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›
brain
Image credit: Milad Fakurian, via Unsplash.
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
September 26, 2023
Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Reproductive Science
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For Males, an Engineering Marvel that Originates in the Brain

Jonathan McLatchie
September 26, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Reproductive Science
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The male erection and ejaculatory reflex require multiple physiological processes to work together in an incredible coordinated manner. Read More ›
red-blood-cells
Image credit: Vector8DIY, via Pixabay.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 24, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade

Andrew McDiarmid
September 24, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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“Evolution doesn’t perform particularly well when you need to make multiple co-dependent mutations,” says Dr. McLatchie. Read More ›
red-blood-cells-1
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
August 24, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

Jonathan McLatchie
August 24, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›
blood
Image credit: allinonemovie, via Pixabay.
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
August 23, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting

Jonathan McLatchie
August 23, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Recently, a commenter on the Center for Science and Culture’s Facebook page asked about a paper by the late biochemist Russell F. Doolittle. Read More ›
Ford Model T
Photo credit: ModelTMitch, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
July 26, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
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The Other Unsolved Problem of Evolution

Granville Sewell
July 26, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology
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"With all our advanced technology, we are not close to producing human-engineered self-replicating machines." Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
June 22, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

Jonathan McLatchie
June 22, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.
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Date
May 16, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

Science and Culture
May 16, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
March 29, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Science
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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

David Coppedge
March 29, 2023
Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Science
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An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Read More ›

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