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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
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

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naturalists

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Natural Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype, text concept button on keyboard
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
November 17, 2025
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Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
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What’s in a Name? Darwin’s Confusing Terminology

Neil Thomas
November 17, 2025
Evolution, Scientific Reasoning
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In the English language prior to Darwin, “natural selection” was a term used by those who reared animals to denote nature’s serendipity. Read More ›
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 26, 2025
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Culture
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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From Fantastic Four to First Causes: Why Science Has Eclipsed Darwin

Andrew McDiarmid
August 26, 2025
Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Scientific materialism continues to have a strong hold on our culture today, as does the atheism that it fuels. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 15, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Zoology
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Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Zoology
2
What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›
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Photo: Yosemite Valley, by King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
April 4, 2025
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Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
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Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines

Andrew McDiarmid
April 4, 2025
Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Faith & Science
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The famous naturalist put human inventions aside to reap the benefits of nature.  Read More ›
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
April 2, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
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Is Natural Law Irreducible?

Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 2, 2024
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences
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Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. Read More ›
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young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
February 14, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwin’s Bluff: Peeling Back the Myth

Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he continually promised to others but never completed or published. Read More ›
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
May 16, 2023
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Biochemistry
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 16, 2023
Biochemistry, Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 3, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: A flat-fish, by Kevin Mc Loughlin via Pixabay .
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Author
Herman B. Bouma
Date
March 29, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
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Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

Herman B. Bouma
March 29, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology, Science
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In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.” Read More ›

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