Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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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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

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

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Photo: Agamous generation of red-pea gall of gall wasp Cynips divisa on oak leaf, by Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.
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April 17, 2023
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Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

Science and Culture
April 17, 2023
Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences
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Charles Darwin was profoundly interested in plant galls, and Darwin himself proposed the challenge these and other forms may pose to his ideas. Read More ›
Gregor Mendel
Photo: Gregor Mendel, via Sanjana Kadur, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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June 5, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Listen: Mendel vs. Darwin

Science and Culture
June 5, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Unfortunately, acceptance of Darwinism hindered acceptance of Gregor Mendel’s great insights. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.
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Granville Sewell
Date
June 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis

Granville Sewell
June 28, 2021
Intelligent Design
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In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
April 21, 2021
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Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Zoology
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

Granville Sewell
April 21, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Zoology
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Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
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March 13, 2020
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Life Sciences
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Lesson from a Carnivorous Plant

David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2020
Life Sciences
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The aquatic bladderwort lacks the charm of a rose, a lily, cherry blossoms, or many other plants you can think of, but it has something else to recommend it. Read More ›
Utricularia aurea 2
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
February 28, 2020
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Botany
Life Sciences
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Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020
Botany, Life Sciences
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Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›
Boeing-jet
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
September 10, 2019
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Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Once Again: Who Designed the Designer? 

Granville Sewell
September 10, 2019
Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics
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“Some may ask, ‘What is the origin of the engineers? Therefore I don’t believe that this machine has been designed.’” Read More ›
W.E. Loennig 2
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April 7, 2019
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Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
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Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

Science and Culture
April 7, 2019
Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences
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As Lönnig points out, Richard Dawkins and others are at great pains to deny the connection. Why would that be? Read More ›
plants
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
April 1, 2019
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Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Physics
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Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

Granville Sewell
April 1, 2019
Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics
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You do not need to study mutations for thirty years to predict that bombarding plant chromosomes with radiation will not lead to major agricultural advances. Read More ›
honeycreeper
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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
January 11, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Behe’s New Book, Darwin Devolves — Stunning and Absolutely Convincing

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 11, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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I recently had a lively conversation with a former colleague at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. Read More ›

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