Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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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

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Michael Egnor

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 21, 2023
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Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

Denyse O’Leary
July 21, 2023
Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 19, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain

Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain. Read More ›
brain
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Denyse O’Leary
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July 1, 2023
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain

Denyse O’Leary
July 1, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›
free will
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 26, 2023
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›
Ann Gauger
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Date
April 21, 2023
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Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Grand Design: Biologist Ann Gauger Discusses the Catholic Case for ID

Science & Culture
April 21, 2023
Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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Gauger gives a summary of the book’, tells how she found her way into the intelligent design fold, and explains why Catholics should reject evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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April 17, 2023
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Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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New Book Offers the CATHOLIC Case for Intelligent Design

Science & Culture
April 17, 2023
Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design. Read More ›
Gonzalez
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David Klinghoffer
Date
March 22, 2023
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Biology
Culture
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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Summer Seminars in Colorado — A FREE Remedy for Cancel Culture; Applications Due April 1

David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2023
Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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As one of our students last year said at the concluding banquet, the Summer Seminars represent “science as it should be, rather than science as it is.” Read More ›
Design-Engaged Theology
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February 24, 2023
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action

Science & Culture
February 24, 2023
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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In the first plenary, Stephen Meyer will argue for the existence of an intelligent and transcendent God who has also acted in the course of cosmic history. Read More ›
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January 19, 2023
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Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Science
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Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Science & Culture
January 19, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Science
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Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
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January 17, 2023
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
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Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Science & Culture
January 17, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science
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Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›

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