Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY 4.0)
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
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
William A. Dembski
Image provided by Bill Dembski
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
Photo courtesy of Stephen Iacoboni
David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
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
Photo provided by Daniel Witt.
Jonathan Witt

Topic

missing links

Samotherium
Photo: Skull of Samotherium, © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
December 9, 2025
Categories
Evolution
Zoology
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A Link Between the Okapi and the Giraffe? It Seems Not

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 9, 2025
Evolution, Zoology
2
The question of how the giraffe’s extremely long neck originated remains entirely unresolved within an evolutionary framework. Read More ›
Homo_neanderthalensis,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1225_1278
Photo credit: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 5, 2024
Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

Denyse O’Leary
December 5, 2024
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
7
This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Read More ›
Mesomyzon mengae
Photo: Mesomyzon mengae, Tiouraren via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
March 15, 2024
Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
52
Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
Tetrapodophis
Image: Tetrapodophis, photo Tischlinger in Gramling 2016, fair use.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
December 22, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?

Günter Bechly
December 22, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
24
There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy. Read More ›
OH_7_replica_03
Photo credit: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
June 23, 2023
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

Günter Bechly
June 23, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
7
The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›
Neanderthal Musuem
Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 17, 2023
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology
6
The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›
tullymonster
Photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 5, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
4
How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›
Darwinius
Photo: Darwinius marsillae, Franzen et al. 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
September 23, 2022
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
5
The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
August 19, 2022
Categories
Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022
Paleontology, Science
13
Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin, in a scene from The War on Humans (screenshot).
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
November 6, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Darwin on Trial (Again)

Neil Thomas
November 6, 2021
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
4
My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery. Read More ›

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