Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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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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

neo-Darwinian theory

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Casey Luskin
Date
May 5, 2021
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Evolution
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Do Human Embryos Have Gills?

Casey Luskin
May 5, 2021
Evolution
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Jonathan Wells provide quotes from leading embryologists discussing how pharyngeal folds in humans only have an “illusory” similarity to fish gills. Read More ›
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Photo: American Association for the Advancement of Science, exterior, by 'Matthew G. Bisanz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Herman B. Bouma
Date
May 5, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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AAAS Leader Does Not Rule Out Design, Says Science Must Follow the Evidence

Herman B. Bouma
May 5, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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In recent years the American scientific establishment has sought to shut off debate about neo-Darwinian theory by playing its trump card. Read More ›
Moses with the Tables of the Law
Image: Moses with the Tables of the Law, by Guido Reni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Michael Flannery
Date
March 4, 2021
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
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Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

Michael Flannery
March 4, 2021
Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy
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For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Read More ›
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Photo: Ernst Mayr, by University of Konstanz / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).
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Robert F. Shedinger
Date
August 8, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
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Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020
Biology, Evolution
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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›
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Sarah Chaffee
Date
June 24, 2020
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Origin of Life
Science Education
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In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution

Sarah Chaffee
June 24, 2020
Origin of Life, Science Education
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Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows. Read More ›
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Charles Thaxton
Date
March 24, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
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Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020
Biology, Evolution
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The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›
David Gelernter
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 4, 2019
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Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
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Coyne, Bechly, Miller, Berlinski: Scientists Debate David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2019
Biology, Evolution, Mathematics
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If anyone is worrying, it is Coyne and his fellow Darwinists, alarmed at the defection of a stellar intellect like Gelernter. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
Date
September 9, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

Casey Luskin
September 9, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is. Read More ›
education
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Sarah Chaffee
Date
May 31, 2019
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Science Education
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Indoctrination or Debate? How to Teach Evolution

Sarah Chaffee
May 31, 2019
Science Education
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A course in “Science and Nonsense” is intended to persuade, to herd students toward approved opinions. Read More ›
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Paul Nelson
Date
May 30, 2019
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Evolution
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PLOS Genetics Asks: “What Is a Mutation?”

Paul Nelson
May 30, 2019
Evolution
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What if there is genuine directionality in mutation? An important paper addresses the subject. Read More ›

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