Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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

methodological materialism

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Author
Daniel Witt
Date
April 16, 2025
Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology
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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
January 13, 2025
Categories
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
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God and the Odds of ET

Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2025
Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth
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There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
October 14, 2021
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Planetology
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

Jonathan Witt
October 14, 2021
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Planetology
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Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Date
September 14, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Stephen Meyer Explains “Exotic Naturalism”

Science & Culture
September 14, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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Atheists are multiplying exotic and unobserved entities to hold at bay a much simpler and more reasonable explanation for the evidence. Read More ›
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Date
June 23, 2021
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Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
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Meyer: The Multiverse, Bayesian Probability Calculus, and More

Science & Culture
June 23, 2021
Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences
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Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer also discuss the beginning of the universe, the multiverse, and specific scientific predictions that ID thinking has motivated. Read More ›
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Date
February 8, 2018
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps

Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt
February 8, 2018
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge. Read More ›
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methodological naturalism
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Date
September 15, 2017
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Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design and Methodological Naturalism — No Necessary Contradiction

Science & Culture
September 15, 2017
Intelligent Design
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A corespondent draws our attention to a comment from atheist and "poetic naturalist" Sean Carroll, in his recent book. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
June 29, 2017
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science
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Obit for Famous Christian Paleontologist Peddles Warfare Myth

Jonathan Witt
June 29, 2017
Evolution, Faith & Science, Science
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Trilobites, crinoids, brachiopods, and more bear his name. But a colleague introduces some telling confusions into a remembrance. Read More ›
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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
July 11, 2016
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Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious!

Michael Egnor
July 11, 2016
Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›

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