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

Topic

life

black hole
Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez
Date
September 12, 2024
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
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Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Guillermo Gonzalez
September 12, 2024
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology
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I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
CubeSats
Photo: CubeSats, by NASA/Tracy Dyson.
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
September 9, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

Andrew McDiarmid
September 9, 2024
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
1
A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›
The_Doctor
Image: The Doctor, by Luke Fildes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Daniel Witt
Date
September 9, 2024
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
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Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics
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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›
eclipse
Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 21, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 21, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
6
In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›
Ringsandthings
Photo credit: Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari.
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 16, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Three Ways to Formulate the Fine-Tuning Argument: An Introduction

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 16, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
4
At the heart of fundamental physics are the laws of nature. These laws govern the interactions between fundamental particles. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth as seen from the Moon, by NASA.
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Eric Hedin
Date
August 14, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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What Can We Infer About the Source of Life?

Eric Hedin
August 14, 2024
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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If I may, I would submit that a familial relationship exists between the author of life and what has been made. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rapha Wilde via Unsplash.
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Date
August 5, 2024
Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
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How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

Science & Culture
August 5, 2024
Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science
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The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›
Denis Noble
Photo: Copyright holder: Denis Noble ("I certify that I own the copyright to this photograph."), Copyrighted free use, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
July 30, 2024
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Oxford Biologist Denis Noble: “The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”

Casey Luskin
July 30, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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I respect Denis Noble and in disagreeing with him I do not mean to slight his deep insights into how biology works. Read More ›
General Sherman tree
Photo: General Sherman tree, by Jim Bahn / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 7, 2024
Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

Andrew McDiarmid
July 7, 2024
Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
July 1, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Illuminating the Power of Life

Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 1, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Read More ›

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